Make FolderBrowserDialog show short cuts 1

[YerMom]

I have a GUI application that displays a FolderBrowserDialog. One of my users asked if I can make the dialog show shortcuts to folders.

I don't see any properties that would allow me to specify that. On the MSDN site I found the following:

This class provides a way to prompt the user to browse, create, and eventually select a folder. Use this class when you only want to allow the user to select folders, not files. Browsing of the folders is done through a tree control. Only folders from the file system can be selected; virtual folders cannot.

Does "virtual folders" refer to folder shortcuts?
Does anyone know for sure if I can or cannot show shortucts?

Thanks.

 

[Sorwen]

Possibly that is what they mean by a virtual folder, I'm not sure. The reason you can't select shortcuts though is because a shortcut is a file not a folder. A dialog box selector would have to read every shortcut in the selected directory to then show only those that link to a directory. There is nothing wrong with that it is just beyond what the standard windows select directory dialog does.

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[YerMom]

Sorwen,

Thanks. It makes sense that a shortcut is a file. I'll have to do some thinking about how to proceed.