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C# Open/SaveFileDialog with a different file system

I'd like the standard windows open and save file dialogs, however, the particular application I am using it for is a remote file system (basically, I'd love to somehow just provide a IFileSystem interface to SaveFileDialog and have it magically change the files it sees by me providing them). Does anyone know of a complete implementation of those dialogs that supports this functionality? Is there any way to do it with the standard C#/windows dialogs?

If not, I will be implementing the dialog myself. I would still love any resources to implementations of these dialogs, even if they don't support this functionality, just so I could rip them apart and add that functionality myself.

Thanks!

Solution

  • The only choice is to implement your own Shell Namespace Extension. It may be registered as a "My Computer" child so it looks like another drive. Beware: this is a tedious work and due to .NET framework limitation (<4.0), it has to be written in C/C++.

    Here is the example.