Hi Harsh,

Visual Basic 2005 provides DirListBox, DriveListBox, and FileListBox controls as part of the Microsoft Visual Basic Compatibility Runtime library. You can add a these controls to Visual Studio toolbox. Take the following steps.

1. On the View menu, choose Toolbox.

2. Right-click Toolbox and then click Choose Items�

3. In the Choose Toolbox Items dialog box choose the �NET Framework Components�tab , and check the DirListBox, DriveListBox, and FileListBox components, then click OK.

Now these controls will be added to the toolbox, you can drag and drop them onto the Windows Form. For more information, check the following article on MSDN.

· How to: Add Visual Basic 6.0 File System Controls to Your Application

Hope this helps.
Best regards.
Rong-Chun Zhang

In visual basic 6.0 we were having controls like DriveListBox, DirectoryListBox, FileListBox.

But these controls are missing in VB.Net 2005.

So how could I show Directory structure on windows forms.

How canI Use DriveListBox, DirectoryListBox, FileListBox controls of VB 6.0 in Vb.Net 2005?

Hi Harsh,

Visual Basic 2005 provides DirListBox, DriveListBox, and FileListBox controls as part of the Microsoft Visual Basic Compatibility Runtime library. You can add a these controls to Visual Studio toolbox. Take the following steps.

1. On the View menu, choose Toolbox.

2. Right-click Toolbox and then click Choose Items�

3. In the Choose Toolbox Items dialog box choose the �NET Framework Components�tab , and check the DirListBox, DriveListBox, and FileListBox components, then click OK.

Now these controls will be added to the toolbox, you can drag and drop them onto the Windows Form. For more information, check the following article on MSDN.

· How to: Add Visual Basic 6.0 File System Controls to Your Application

Hope this helps.
Best regards.
Rong-Chun Zhang

Thanks, it works fine.

But I wonder why such useful controls are not in .net 2005