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The JamExplorer Example mimics the Windows Explorer capabilities with a minimum effort on code. The application allows to manipulate the major options of each of the used controls. You may alter the appearance and behaviour of the ShellTreeView, ShellListView and the ShellCombo. It is possible to enable the checkboxes for the control which enables the user to perform advanced selection.

The "Special Folders" menu allows to point the application to a specific system folder, it's best to simply try it out, load the solution into your IDE and play with it. You'll see, the learning curve is amazingly flat.

 

 

The DropDown button shown opened below changes the appearance of the ListView; in this example the Details view mode is enabled along with

checkboxes:

 

 

A new feature is the "Extra Large Icons" option in the ShellListView menu for the Vista operating system and Server 2008 or later:

It enables the developer to switch between all icon sizes that are naturally supported by the windows explorer.