File Explorer or Browser in winforms

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Hi ,

Can any one guide me how to create a file Explorer in winforms

My requirement is i want a tree view to display all the directortes in the directories in the system and on clicking the particular folder in the tree view i want to display all the text files with size and date in the list view including the icons .

Can any one guide me how to do this.

Thanks in Advance.

Thanks and Regards,
Aditya Kiran M.

Posted 23-Apr-11 8:16am

aditya kiran maroju

Updated 23-Apr-11 8:31am

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Ed Nutting · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-23T08:41:00

I would suggest you start by looking at the System.IO namespace with specific reference to the File and Directory classes. The static methods of the Directory class include GetDirectories (which will return top level or all sub directories of a directory you specify) and also GetFiles which will return all the file names of a directory. Between these two functions it should be pretty simple to write a loop that just loops through sub directories adding them to a tree view and then on clicking a directory simply use GetFiles and filter which ones you add the a list view. You can also use the FileInfo class to get more information about a file by: new FileInfo(Filename) which can tell you things like file extension, file size, created date etc.

Hope this helps,

Ed :)