explorer

How can I programmatically refresh Windows Explorer?

I have a Windows shell extension that uses IShellIconOverlayIdentifier interface to display overlay icons on files and folders. My extension is a little like TortoiseCVS or TortoiseSVN. Sometimes I need to make Windows Explorer redraw all it's icons. To do this, I call SHChangeNotify like this: SHChangeNotify(SHCNE_ASSOCCHANGED, SHCN...

Team Explorer 2008 and MS SCC API?

Hi, I apologize if this seems slightly off-topic, it's more a technical/installation question than it is a programming question, though I bet someone here knows it. In any case... I've installed Team Explorer 2008 since we're using TFS here for source control, and now I'm looking at Help and Manual, which has support for source control...

Implementing Folder Explorer with webbrowser C# winform

Hi, I' trying to use webbrowser to create a folder explorer and I have few problems that I could not find any answer on the web... so I’ll appreciate your answers: Can someone please explain how can I create the Up button (going to parent folder)? How can I the explorer bar (on the left) to favorites or search as in windows explorer? ...

When I create views from Clearcase explorer, both development and the integration views get created as snapshot.

I do not get the option at all to choose for the views to be snapshot or dynamic. What I would want is the development view to be snapshot and the integration view to be dynamic. Why is it that I am not prompted to let me choose my views to be snapshot/dynamic? ...

Visual studio team explorer shows red cross in build en reports folder

Any ideas what the problem could be? Some facts: -The direct report link works(i can surf to http://theserver/Reports/Pages/Folder.aspx?ItemPath=/someSite ) -I have enough rights -It has worked and suddenly it stopped working -I can open source control -I am directly connected over a local lan with the tfs server -My colleages do ...

How to extend windows explorer functionality?

How would I go about extending the functionality of windows explorer in XP? Is there some way whereby I could create a "plugin" of some sorts that could hook into explore.exe to add additional folder browsing functionality? What language could I use to achieve this? This is an expansion of a question I asked here. ...

Has someone created a WPF Toolbar-Control in Vista/Win7 look ?

I would like to add a toolbar, that looks like the one in the Windows 7 Explorer (see picture below), to a WPF-application. Because I'm new to WPF I wondered if there is a WPF-Control (free / open source) I can use instead of having to create a new one. I already searched for it but could not find anything useful. ...

Basic Team Explorer usage questions

Hello, We are setting up a new TFS 2008 implementation as our first usage of TFS for source control. We have several projects in Visual Studio 2003, 2005 and 2008, as well as other script/non-Visual Studio based projects. My question is, for the Visual Studio 2003 and 2005 projects do we have to install Team Explorer 2003/2005 and mak...

What is the best way to debug a crashing explorer.exe ?

I work for an orginization that has a custom built Access/SQL Application running in house. We have a problem Explorer.exe throwing an error and crashing. This is a picture of the crash: What is the best way to start tracking this problem down and finding a solution ? ...

Internet Explorer 8 - Session Shared among Explorer Window

IE 8 sharing session among different Explorer Window for same domain. Like if you are a logined at hotmail.com in IE 8, and you have open another explorer window for hotmail.com, you will automatically logined. This was not in IE 7, In IE 7 session has shared in the same explorer tab rather different Explorer Window. Can anyone have a i...

Why won't windows explorer sort directories under the 'Temporary ASP.NET Files' directory by name?

When I navigate to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files\myfirstproject\202aebd2\f0e764e2\assembly\dl3 in Windows explorer, there are 108 folders with 8 character hexadecimal names. Explorer won't sort this folder by name (or value ). What gives? ...

Rules for "Date Modified" of folders in Windows Explorer

How does Windows Explorer determine the "Date Modified" field for folders? [Aside: I know this is asking from an explorer-specific perspective, but the behaviour could be useful to coding search/sort type activities] Is there a definitive description of this anywhere - searches of Microsoft, MSDN, Google & Stack Overflow have been unsuc...

The event BeforeNavigate2 in Windows Internet Explorer 7 does not fire

I have a VB6 Application which creates an instance of the internet explorer and implements drag and drop for this instance. I am using the event BeforeNavigate2 so that when user drops a file or a folder on the explorer, the event will return the path. ...... Public WithEvents myIExplorer as new SHDocvW.InternetExplorer ...... Private S...

Very weird flash loading issue (Only happens in IE, Not FF)

Hello, I have produced a website for a design company http://www. paul bro okes des ign dot com As you can see the first page has a flash image fader on it. This works totally in Firefox on all computers. But in IE on several computers, this fails to load... only getting to 25%, or 44%. On my computer this loads 100% every time in I...

Getting the width/height of the entire browser in IE?

Does anybody here know what the Javascript call is to get the width/height of the entire browser window (including nav, menu, etc?) I know there is outerWidth, outerHeight in FF, Safari and other browsers. ...

A "Windows Explorer" Type Interface in ASP.NET?

Does anyone know of a third party control or set of code that allows directory browsing integrated into a web page that uses master pages? So I'd need a content control that I can simply give a local server directory to as a root directory and it will display any files and directories in the browser underneath the root. I don't need any...

How to get explorer folders as default folder view?

I like the style of of folder tree browser where there is an explorer pane on the left. In XP you can get this in View -> Explorer Bar -> folders. However, there doesn't seem to be a way to set this as the default view, at least through the Tools -> Folder Options menu. Do you know how to do this? Also, is there a way to get this in Vis...

How to get a LPITEMIDLIST pointer according to the path of a folder?

I want to get the system icon of a specified folder, but maybe the only way to retrieve the icon is to use SHGetFileInfo() method. The first parameter of SHGetFileInfo() method is a pointer of LPITEMIDLIST. If I only have the absolute path of the folder, how can I get the pointer according to the path? Thank you very much! ...

Adding specific files or folders to a windows explorer view

I've been working on a tagging program for my computer. I need to the ability to pass a list of files or folders into an explorer (or something similar) to display them and be able to manipulate them much like you would do with a folder view in Windows. I've already written the software which records and stores tags relative to file's ...

c# open folder

I saw the other topic and I'm having another problem .. The process is starting(saw at task manager) but the folder is not opening on my screen .. System.Diagnostics.Process.Start("explorer.exe",@"c:\teste"); What's wrong ? Thanks, Edited: Replaced '//' for '/', still starting only the process @ task manager, folder is not opening ....