Get IE favorites and display them in a menue

[pragmatiker]

Hi,
I am using vb.net 2005 and want to read all my internet explorer favorites to display them in a menue in my application (like the ie menue)
How can I read all my favorites and display them? Anyone an idea?
Thx!

 

[sevenhalo]

Edit:

Don't mind me, I'm being dumb.

System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Favorites)

Use this path and read each file name into your menu.

 

[pragmatiker]

thx,
can you tell me how to read the favs from the fav's dir? I habe no idea for some code

 

[sevenhalo]

It's the same as reading any other directory.

[SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] favDirect [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] System.IO.Directory
[/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]Dim[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] arrFiles() [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]As[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2] [/SIZE][SIZE=2][COLOR=#0000ff]String
[/COLOR][/SIZE][SIZE=2]arrFiles = favDirect.GetFiles(System.Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Favorites))
[/SIZE]

This will give you a string array of the file names in the favorites folder.

Before you ask, I'm going to leave it up to you to figure out how to make them a link.

 

[pragmatiker]

guess what my next questition is?
I habe now the path, but not the link... Can you help me with some code, please!

 

[sevenhalo]

The path is the link. Unless you're building this in ASP.Net (or have an IE window in your form), you're going to need to start an instance of IE.

Play with it a bit, we're here to help; but we're not free contractors.