Comments on: Code Sample: Navigating special folders with the .NET WebBrowser control

By: Andreas M.

Andreas M. — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:11:40 +0000

@no1
Unfortunately, this sample won’t work anymore when Internet Explorer 8 is installed. I had a hard time finding a workaround. You still can use the WebBrowser control to show the contents of shell special folders, however it’s no longer possible to use all CSIDLs. To navigate the control panel, you can use this navigation target instead “shell:::{26EE0668-A00A-44D7-9371-BEB064C98683}” (without the quotes).

The reason behind this is detailed here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2009/12/30/windows-7-web-browser-control-will-not-browse-file-system.aspx

You can find a comprehensive list of shell special folder GUIDs in Ed Bott’s ZDNET posting on the Windows “God Mode” here: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/bott/the-ultimate-god-mode-list-39-secret-windows-7-shortcuts/1615

Hope this helps.

By: no1

no1 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:53:11 +0000

@no1 Sorry for the double post but just giving an update, I tried this on the same machine after I uninstalled IE8 (thus reverting back to IE7) and the code works as expected.

By: no1

no1 — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 22:33:10 +0000

Hey I’m trying to get this to work. I downloaded and built the sample yet I get this error message when I click the Open Control Panel button:

System.ArgumentException: Value does not fall within the expected range.
at SHDocVw.IWebBrowser2.Navigate2(Object& URL, Object& Flags, Object& TargetFrameName, Object& PostData, Object& Headers)
at WebBrowserExtSample.WebBrowserExt.Navigate2CSIDL(CSIDLValues csidl)
at WebBrowserExtSample.frmMain.btnNavigate_Click(Object sender, EventArgs e)
…

I also kept getting this same message in my own testing. Is this possibly an IE8 bug?

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By: gilvini

gilvini — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:01:28 +0000

Hi,

Excellent! Exactly what I was looking for.
Can you please specify how to implement “Up” button (navigating to parent folder)?

Thanks,
gilvini