C#:How to program a service that changes the icon of a folder based on the content?

Question

I want to make a program that runs as a service and changes the folder icon based on its foldercontent, like svn does. And I also want to change the icon and the behavior of a folder if the name is example.someextension .

How may I programmatically achieve this and which namespaces or libraries could do that?

Answer 1

You can try to use:

• DirectoryInfo, Directory to get directory name, subdirectories, files in directory.

• File, FileInfo to get file name, content, extensions.

• Tutorial to learn how to create windows service.

• And this question to change folder icon.

Good luck