Where to start with a custom my documents folder

[PhilJohnson]

Hello

I am a .net developer tasked with creating a 'plugin' that adds a 'folder' inside the user's My Documents folder (like the My Music folder or the My Pictures folders).

This folder will 'map' to a business object that has a collection of 'folders' and those 'folders' will contain either 'folders' or 'files' (these details are all stored on a central server).

When the user first clicks this new root 'folder' a login dialogue is displayed and if the user successfully logs in, the folder structure is populated using the structure that comes back from the business objects and when the user drags files onto one of these 'folders' they are uploaded to a server via the business objects.

Because of my .net background I am considering what I can do with the File System Watcher, possibly create folders with 'shortcuts' in and when the user clicks the 'shortcut' the file is downloaded and opened.

If anybody has any ideas or suggestion or things to watch out for with this approach I would really appreciate them letting me know.

Also, should does anybody know where I could start looking into API calls that I might also use to implement this with, just in case the File System Watcher does not do what I need it to do.

Thanks for any ideas, suggestions etc on this one.

Phil

 

[JurkMonkey]

If the File System Event Watcher doesn't work as planned, simply check the folder for files every minute or so via a timer.

Everything else you mentioned seems fairly straight forward.