ShellFolderView

Question

I'm trying to capture an instance of the Shell32.ShellFolderView class that is embedded in a another application window.

Something like:

var folderView = Shell32.ShellFolderView.FromHwnd (hwnd);

I need to perform operations like browsing and etc ...

It's possible?

Answer 1

There is no generic interface for everything that hosts a shell view.

Explorer, Internet Explorer and some 3rd-party applications register themselves so you can interact with them using the IShellWindows interface. It is accessible by everything from C++, C# to basic scripts.