Actipro Shell for WPF

Interact with the Windows shell and/or any custom folder hierarchy.

Published by Actipro Software
Distributed by ComponentSource since 2002

Prices from: US$ 146.02 Version: 25.1.4 NEW Updated: Mar 13, 2026

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Actipro Shell for WPF Releases

Released: Apr 19, 2023

Updates in 23.1.0

Features

  • Updated Microsoft .NET 5 targets to .NET 6 since .NET 5 is out of support. Users can continue to use Microsoft .NET Core 3.1 targets for .NET 5 applications.
  • Updated Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 and 4.6.1 targets to .NET Framework 4.6.2 since it is the most recent supported version of .NET Framework.
  • Updated SyntaxEditor-related NuGet packages to properly support cross-platform .NET 6.0.
  • Updated all assemblies to be code-signed.
  • Updated shell service logic to better handle Microsoft's...
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Released: Apr 4, 2023

Updates in 22.1.5

Features

  • Validated Microsoft .NET 7 compatibility.
  • Updated SyntaxEditor-related NuGet packages to properly support cross-platform Microsoft .NET 5.0.

Released: May 27, 2022

Updates in 22.1.2

Features

  • Improved the product installer.
  • Changed the product installer to install shortcuts and samples to folders accessible by all users.

Released: Mar 15, 2022

Updates in 22.1.1

Features

  • Improved Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 designer support.
  • Improved WindowsShellService to allow additional child folders within the Default special folder.

Released: Dec 13, 2021

Updates in 22.1.0

Features

  • Validated Microsoft .NET 6 compatibility.
  • Added Microsoft .NET 5 variations of the product assemblies to the NuGet feeds.

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where ShellTreeListBox's handling of an external selection change could lead to excessive processing in a certain scenario.

Released: Mar 8, 2021

Updates in 21.1.1

Fixes

  • Fixed a bug where referencing the NuGet packages in projects that used packages.config would also incorrectly reference the design-time assemblies.

Released: Feb 18, 2021

Updates in 21.1.0

Features

  • Improved performance when refreshing shell object children in a certain scenario.
  • Improved the Custom Shell Objects QuickStart to demonstrate more advanced features.
  • Validated Microsoft .NET 5 compatibility.
  • Updated Microsoft .NET Core assemblies to target .NET Core 3.1 instead of .NET Core 3.0.
  • Updated Microsoft .NET Framework assemblies to target .NET Framework 4.5.2 instead of .NET Framework 4.0.
  • Modernized offline documentation, and introduced online documentation on the Actipro web...
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Released: Nov 18, 2020

Updates in 2020.1.1

Features

  • Improved performance when refreshing shell object children in a certain scenario.
  • Added the IShellService.AreNamesCaseSensitive property that returns whether shell object names are case-sensitive.

Released: Oct 2, 2020

Updates in 2020.1

Features

Microsoft .NET Core Assemblies

  • Control products now ship in both Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 and Microsoft .NET Core 3.0 assembly variations. You will now be able to use native .NET Core-based Actipro assemblies in your .NET Core apps.

NuGet Packages

  • Another big request has been to supply NuGet packages for the controls. NuGet packages are published on nuget.org and contain both the .NET Core and .NET Framework variations of the assemblies.

Shell

  • Updated how ShellTreeListBox selection...
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Released: Aug 13, 2020

Updates in 2019.1 build 0686

Features

  • Added the ShellListView.SortDirection and SortShellPropertyKey properties, which determine how the list is sorted.
  • Added the ShellListView.CanResetSortOnRootShellFolderChange property, which can be set to false to prevent sort reset when the root folder changes.
  • Added the ShellListView.UpdateColumns method and added support for the CanColumnsToggleVisibility property.
  • Significantly improved the speed by which ShellListView can sort Microsoft Windows shell objects by property.
  • Updated...
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