Programming Virtual File System .NET for Windows Platform
This section contains articles about programming Virtual File System in .NET for Windows platform.
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Creating Virtual File System in .NET for Windows
This article describes specific steps required to implement and run the IT Hit User File System on Windows. You can find how to implement the cress-platform Engine interfaces in the Creating Virtual File System in .NET article. Creating a .NET Projec ...
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Item Change Events
On Windows the Engine provides ItemsChanging and ItemsChanged events that are fired before and after item change on every item creation, update, delete and move operation, for both incoming and outgoing updates. The ItemsChanging event is also fired ...
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Managing Custom Properties
In this article we describe how to save properties received from your remote storage on a client side, attaching them to the item as well as how to access saved properties. Saving Custom Properties When you get custom properties data received from th ...
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Implementing File System Authentication
Functionality described in this article is supported in User File System 8.2 and later versions. IT Hit User File System provides authentication methods that you will implements to check if user is authenticated and show login UI. Probing if User is ...
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Microsoft Office Documents Merging
The functionality described in this article is available in Engine v8.1 Beta and later versions. With User File System you can open MS Office document on more than one machine, receive notifications about changes and merge open documents. When notifi ...
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Creating Virtual Drive in .NET
In this article, we describe advanced features such as move and delete operations on the Microsoft Windows platform, temporary files filtering (typically created by Microsoft Office and AutoCAD transactional save operation), storing custom data assoc ...
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Implementing Thumbnails Support for Windows
Thumbnails support on Windows requires additional steps that we will describe in this article. Note that unlike context menu on Windows 11, thumbnails handler does NOT require application identity. Follow the steps below to implement thumbnails provi ...
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Creating Custom Windows Explorer Context Menu Shell Extension for Virtual Drive
This article describes how to create a Windows Explorer context menu integrated in your main application. Your context menu handler will run as a COM inside main app, which also hosts your Engine instance. The functionality described in this article ...
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Creating Custom States and Columns Provider Shell Extension for Virtual Drive
The IT Hit User File System Engine provides integrated support for states and custom columns that can be displayed in Windows Explorer. Below we will describe how to implement custom states and columns shell extension for your Virtual Drive that runs ...
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Setting and Detecting Conflict Status
User File System provides support for marking conflicting items and propagating conflict state to upper levels in Windows Explorer. In this article we will describe how to set and read an item conflict status using User File System API. Functionality ...