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Replacing Shell Extension view in MS Office Open F

Hello All,

I am trying to map the database in the form of tree structure similar to windows explorer. I am writing shell namespace extension to view the database in windows explorer and MS Office 2000 Open File dialog.

I have implemented IShellView interface. IshellView supplies my own List view with columns such as ObjectName, version etc. I can see my view correctly in windows explorer and common open file dialog.
Problem is I cannot see my List view in MS Office 2000 Open File dialog even though I can see the virtual folder structure.

Any help on how to make my view appear in MS Office Open file dialog is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Ajay

Ajay Kale
Friday, January 9, 2004

Scroll down to "Microsoft Office Dialogs" here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/04/01/WindowsShell/default.aspx

I don't know if that is related to your problem. If not, it sounds like you might run into it later.

Chris Altmann
Saturday, January 10, 2004