how can i embed a file viewer to a windows form application

Hello,

Based on my understanding, you want Windows Explorer like control which can list the folders and files on a form. If I misunderstood you, please feel free to correct me.

If my understanding is correct, please take a look at the following sample.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/tv-lv-basic41.aspx

The left side of the form is a TreeView control while the right side is a ListView. The TreeView control is used to display all the folders. When you click a folder, the ListView will display all the files in that folder.

In the source code, you can see it use DirectoryInfo and FileInfo to retrieve folders and files information from system.

Hope this helps you. If you have any doubt, please feel free to tell me.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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What type of files (txt file, html file, etc)you want to view in file viewer.

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Gaurav Khanna

Hi user246,

Do you mean view the content of a file in a form?

If so, we can add a RichTextBox control to show the content. If you only want it to be a viewer, you can set its ReadOnly property to true. You can follow this thread to make it read only:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/csharpgeneral/thread/49ae9bb4-aa54-4d55-ac91-6e66b99cfc53.
If the viewer only supports text, you can set RichTextBox’s Text property to the content.
If the viewer support rich text, you need to convert the content in the file to rtf text and set RichTextBox’s Rtf property to the rtf text.

You can get more about RichTextBox from:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.windows.forms.richtextbox.aspx.

Let me know if this helps or not.
Aland Li

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Hello,

Based on my understanding, you want Windows Explorer like control which can list the folders and files on a form. If I misunderstood you, please feel free to correct me.

If my understanding is correct, please take a look at the following sample.
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/tv-lv-basic41.aspx

The left side of the form is a TreeView control while the right side is a ListView. The TreeView control is used to display all the folders. When you click a folder, the ListView will display all the files in that folder.

In the source code, you can see it use DirectoryInfo and FileInfo to retrieve folders and files information from system.

Hope this helps you. If you have any doubt, please feel free to tell me.

Sincerely,
Kira Qian

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