Custom FolderBrowserDialog in WPF

Question

I need to do a window that will show the user all the subfolders inside a concrete folder (in the same way than the FolderBrowserDialog does for WinForms), but I want to add some logic to let the user mark as undesired any folders.

These undesired folders will contain a forbidden icon instead of a folder icon, and won't be shown the subfolders of these folders.

So my problem is that I need to implement a FolderBrowserDialog + some logic that will affect the icons of the folders. Any idea of how can I do this?

Answer 1

Well, there are a few approaches to this, but just like Hans has suggested, TreeView is probably going to play a big part in this... that is, of course, depending on how you lay things out. Anyways, it appears that you need a bump in the right direction, so I'll suggest these two open source projects:

OpenFileOrFolderDialog: https://github.com/scottwis/OpenFileOrFolderDialog

VistaFolderBrowserDialog (scroll down to see it): http://www.ookii.org/software/dialogs/

Review their code, see how things are structured. This will give you a basic understanding of what choices you should make during your development process.

Furthermore, this very comprehensive article on FolderBrowserDialog implementation will assist you in making your design decisions.

Good luck!