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| | virtual filesystem I'd like to have a virtual folder for a special device to be integrated into explorer's filesystem view. The preferable way would be to have an individual drive. But it is also acceptable to have a virtual folder. The only requirement I have is that explorer should behave like for real filesystem folders (d.h. file types, context menu, columns, view, toolbar, etc). This means every application may access the contents on that device, using standard file I/O, as if it would be an ordinary filesystem entry. I started writing a NSE with C# that provides the files and folders stored on that device. But it turned out that the NSE has to do all the work itself. I found no way to just tell explorer that there's a folder and force it to do the entire stuff. I'm wondering if there isn't a much more easier way to do that, e.g. by implementing a special interface, or some thing like that, whithout the need to do all the work by my self. Than I heard from WinFX/WinFS and I'm asking if this technologies can be more helpful. But I don't know where to start from. Mike |
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| | Re: virtual filesystem Hello, The best thing to do this, is to write a device driver not to use winfs. The only way you could use WinFS is as a cache, from witch you would do synchronization betwen WinFS and your device. All you have to do is to write a WinFS Sync Adapter that will write new data to your device and update WinFS with new device data. Regards -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Jérôme Piquot GEDIMAT Wolff-Catenne 6, rue de la Gare 67120 Ernolsheim sur Bruche FRANCE mail: jerome.piquot@wolff.fr http://www.gedimat.fr ------------------------------------------------------------- "Mike" <Mike@discussions.microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news: CD73BDF7-7176-48F8-8FAA-5F3A3CD142D8@microsoft.com... > I'd like to have a virtual folder for a special device to be integrated > into > explorer's filesystem view. The preferable way would be to have an > individual > drive. But it is also acceptable to have a virtual folder. The only > requirement I have is that explorer should behave like for real filesystem > folders (d.h. file types, context menu, columns, view, toolbar, etc). This > means every application may access the contents on that device, using > standard file I/O, as if it would be an ordinary filesystem entry. > > I started writing a NSE with C# that provides the files and folders stored > on that > device. But it turned out that the NSE has to do all the work itself. I > found no way to just tell explorer that there's a folder and force it to > do > the entire stuff. > > I'm wondering if there isn't a much more easier way to do that, e.g. by > implementing a special interface, or some thing like that, whithout the > need > to do all the work by my self. > > Than I heard from WinFX/WinFS and I'm asking if this technologies can be > more helpful. But I don't know where to start from. > > Mike > > |
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