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Forgot Password The aim is to create an application which (enhanced windows explorer) consists a tree view where someone
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The aim is to create an application which (enhanced windows explorer) consists a tree view where
someone can see the files available in the existing drives up to certain levels. (In this case 4). You can
easily change it to any level you want. Also when someone selects a file from the tree view, we need to
display the different properties of this file in the labels in the group box. Then when he user selects some
file and presses the Compress button, the file gets compressed and like wise it is to be decompressed.

I create a windows application with a tree view showing the files in the drives as in fig 1.The user can
expand the up to 4 levels to see the files/directories.

The details of the selected file or folder like the file name, date created, size etc are shown in the labels
in the Details groupBox. (See Figure 1).

Also the Data GroupBox contains a multi-line text box which shows the contents of the selected file.

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its load only couple of levels and when you click on some branch its reload that branch to deep levels.
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If you try o load all the level, then its going to take up to 2-5 minutes depending upon your machine
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by lee On April 13, 2007

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Thx by Rashadov On August 17, 2008

Thx bro very Good Example

Re: Thx by shail On December 10, 2008

Thanks

sample by Martin On February 21, 2009

I think the example app is a horrible mess. This is not good programming technique.

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