A User Interface Suite by LogicNP Software

Shell MegaPack.Net 2008 recreates the entire Windows Explorer file & folder browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it completely mimics the Windows Explorer UI including Thumbnail, Detail & Group View, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming. Additionally, it features advanced functionality like item filtering, multiple-root nodes, checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and allows customization of context menus, dragdrop, appearance, display names, icons, overlay icons and infotips. It is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which developers are currently limited to.

Also included is the ShellObjects set of components for creating quick launch-like appbars, displaying multiple MSN/Office2003 style popups, wizard UIs, animated tray icons, automatic form resizing, Vista-style task dialogs, system-wide hotkeys, task scheduler library, SingleInstanceComponent, shell file operations, system idle notifications and create and read shortcuts and internet shortcuts.

Shell MegaPack.Net is written in 100% C# managed code; it fully supports Visual Studio 2008 with Net 3.5/3.0 and Vista; it has a royalty-free redistribution license; it has no external dependencies and it comes with comprehensive documentation and numerous samples.


Complete Windows Explorer look, feel and behavior
· 2-line integration with FolderView and ShComboBox brings complete Windows Explorer functionality to your application.
· Identical displaynames, icons and overlay icons shown for files/folders.
· Identical dragdrop functionality.
· Identical renaming functionality.
· Identical display of infotips for files/folders.
· Identical display of contextmenus ( including 'Send To' and any other submenus) for files/folders.
· Identical support for various display modes( Large Icon, Small Icon,etc.) including full support for 'Details Mode'.
· Complete 'Thumbnail View' support similar to Windows Explorer.
· Complete 'Group View' support similar to Windows Explorer.
· Identical default-key handling functionality ( e.g. Alt-Enter shows the properties dialog box)
· Identical background context menu functionality when the empty background area is right-clicked.
· Powerful AutoUpdate functionality refreshes FileView automatically when files/folders are renamed, deleted or created.

Advanced customization features
· Change default displaynames for files/folders.
· Change default icons for files/folders.
· Change default overlay icons such as shortcut or network share overlay icon.
· Change default thumbnails for items in Thumbnail View.
· Display of multi-state checkboxes next to each file/folder.
· Show/Hide multi-state checkboxes on a per-file/folder basis.
· Add custom items ( i.e. items not belonging to the shell ).
· Add custom menuitems in the default shell contextmenus of files/folders.
· Change default infotips for files/folders.
· Pattern-based filtering of files/folders ( e.g. : "*.bmp;*.jpg" ) or advanced custom filtering using a simple event.
· Advanced customization of contextmenu shown for files/folders and for the background contextmenu.
· Advanced customization of dragdrop functionality including the ability to prevent or change drop actions, and access and put new data during dragdrop.
· Add developer defined columns in 'Details Mode'.
· Hide standard columns in 'Details Mode'.
· Change default column text (Name. Size, Type, Date Modified, etc) for files/folders in 'Details Mode'.
· Change default sorting behavior using developer defined sorting procedure.
· Total appearance control by changing backcolor, forecolor, text fonts and other listview properties.

System Requirements

Minimum Requirement .Net Framework v1.0 or higher.