The easiest way to extend and customize Windows File Explorer with virtual folders, custom menus, toolbars, detail columns, and more.

Windows File Explorer Customization
Enhance your users' Windows File Explorer experience with CBFS Shell. Enable them to seamlessly interact with files and folders, tailor context menus to their needs, incorporate informative columns, and more.

Unlike in-process code that risks crashing the File Explorer process, CBFS Shell operates independently, communicating with your application through a robust RPC mechanism. Windows File Explorer and other applications remain stable and unaffected by unexpected or unhandled conditions within your shell application.

Supported operations include:

Creating and managing Virtual Folders
Customizing Visual Information including Views, Thumbnails, Toolbars, etc.
Context Menu item customization
Supporting End-User Actions such as Drag, Drop, Copy, and Paste
Creating Custom Columns visible in Detail View

Greater File Explorer Stability
Our unique proxy runs in the File Explorer process, which calls your code via local RPC. Your code runs out of process, keeping File Explorer stable and responsive. This configuration is what enables you to use managed .NET code to create Shell Namespace Extensions.

Virtual Folders
CBFS Shell can be used to easily create and manage Virtual Folders (display custom data as files) with the help of a Windows Shell Namespace Extension. Data can be read from essentially any source or created on-demand. When a user navigates into a Virtual Folder, the data is presented as a tree of folders and files, just like any other folder.

Additional Views and Visual Information
CBFS Shell's standard namespace also includes other UI elements you can customize, such as:

Details View, List View, and Icon View
Thumbnails and Tooltips
Property Pages
Toolbars and Ribbons

Complete Navigation and Menu Options
CBFS Shell allows your application to handle many standard End-User Actions on files and folders, such as:

Context Menus (with standard or specific items)
Drag, Drop, Copy, Paste, Cut, Delete, and Link
Go To, Backward, Forward, Level Up, Level Down
Grouping and Filtering
Searching

Custom Columns
CBFS Shell allows you to customize which columns are visible within the detail view of Windows File Explorer. Choose from many pre-defined options or create your own columns. Both text and icons can be displayed in a Custom Column. CBFS Shell allows you to present items within a folder in a way that best fits your specific use case.

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