FolderNameEditor

[Mark Rae]

Hi,

I discovered recently the existence of the FolderNameEditor class which is
flagged in the MSDN help as being for internal use only, and should not be
used in apps etc. I have a good contact at Microsoft who informed me that
any undocumented features of the .NET Framework can be used, but doing so
will mean that Micorosoft will not provide support for them.

Therefore, can anyone please tell me if they are using the FolderNameEditor
class successfully and, if not, what else would you recommend? I've seen
"solutions" on the web which involve literally hundreds of lines of code to
iterate up and down directory structures etc, which I don't really want to
use. I've also seen solutions which advocate the "old VB6" way i.e. to use
the Windows API.

Also, does anyone know if this folder browsing will be available natively in
Whidbey?

Regards,

Mark

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi Mark,

You should not use it, as it can change on a future release of the
framework and your code can get broken, and as you don't know how it changed
( cause it's not public info.) debug and correct your code should be much
difficult.

If you have an alternate solution for the same problem I strongly advise
you to use it, you can make a DLL of it and just include it on the others
projects as needed.
Cheers,

--
Ignacio Machin,
ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us
Florida Department Of Transportation

"Mark Rae" <ma**@markrae.co.uk> wrote in message
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Hi,

I discovered recently the existence of the FolderNameEditor class which is
flagged in the MSDN help as being for internal use only, and should not be
used in apps etc. I have a good contact at Microsoft who informed me that
any undocumented features of the .NET Framework can be used, but doing so
will mean that Micorosoft will not provide support for them.

Therefore, can anyone please tell me if they are using the FolderNameEditor class successfully and, if not, what else would you recommend? I've seen
"solutions" on the web which involve literally hundreds of lines of code to iterate up and down directory structures etc, which I don't really want to
use. I've also seen solutions which advocate the "old VB6" way i.e. to use
the Windows API.

Also, does anyone know if this folder browsing will be available natively in Whidbey?

Regards,

Mark

[Mark Rae]

"Ignacio Machin ( .NET/ C# MVP )" <ignacio.machin AT dot.state.fl.us> wrote
in message news:O$**************@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...

You should not use it, as it can change on a future release of the
framework and your code can get broken, and as you don't know how it changed ( cause it's not public info.) debug and correct your code should be much
difficult.

Looks like it'll be properly supported in Whidbey...

http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/l...ameeditor.aspx
http://longhorn.msdn.microsoft.com/l...erbrowser.aspx