Replacing the explorer pane in windows?

Question

When a user puts in a CD and autoruns, I want to "browse" the CD but I want to do some extra processing of the disk contents. If I wanted to replace the ListView in windows explorer with one of my own, how would I start? What terms should I search for to find out how to do this. I want to get the treeview part that explorer provides, and all the shell interaction, I just want to hide the extra extension on the end of the file names (.pgp) and show the icons for the files as if they weren't encrypted.

Answer 1

I think your best option is use a Shell Namespace extension like the GMail Drive shell

see this links

• An almost complete Namespace Extension Sample
• Create Namespace Extensions for Windows Explorer with the .NET Framework
• Tips in Writing Namespace Extensions (I) - Implements Subfolder
• Tips in Writing Namespace Extensions (II) - Implement Create and Delete Object Operations

Bye.