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dp94
dp94

Reputation: 31

How to customize a folder in c# without creating ini file within that folder?

I was trying to customize a folder. Mainly to control the folder icon. This was achieved when desktop.ini file was created within that folder with my custom settings. Now I would want to customize the folder without doing any change(add/ remove) in that folder. How can I achieve this?

Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1061

Answers (2)

dp94
dp94

Reputation: 31

Actually this could be done without inifile. It just that we have to implement a Shell Icon Overlay Handler, a COM object which implements the IShellIconOverlayIdentifier interface. This document helped a lot. http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/7484/How-to-overlay-an-icon-over-existing-shell-objects

Upvotes: 1

erikscandola
erikscandola

Reputation: 2936

I think there is no way to do this but you can do this to hide desktop.ini file even if displays hidden files.

StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(iniFile);

sw.WriteLine("[.ShellClassInfo]");
sw.WriteLine("IconResource=.\\" + iconPath + ",0");

sw.Close();

File.SetAttributes(filePath, File.GetAttributes(filePath) | FileAttributes.Hidden | FileAttributes.System);
File.SetAttributes(folderPath, File.GetAttributes(folderPath) | FileAttributes.ReadOnly);

I don't remember if last line is necessary because I wrote this code more than one year ago.

Upvotes: 3

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