Overview
What is Shell MegaPack ActiveX?
Shell MegaPack brings drop-in Windows shell browsing functionality to your app with support for contextmenus, dragdrop, icons, virtual items,renaming, infotips and advanced features like Thumbnail/Details/Group Views,item filtering and customization.
In depth
A closer look at Shell MegaPack ActiveX
Shell MegaPack ActiveX 8.0 recreates the entire Windows Explorer shell browsing UI functionality in your app in just a couple of seconds. It provides a familiar yet powerful file/folder browsing UI right inside your own forms and dialogs and is a perfect replacement for the plain, inflexible, modal APIs which UI developers are currently limited to. Consisting of a folder tree control, a file/folder list control and a drive-selection control, it mimics every Windows Explorer feature including Thumbnail/Details/GroupView styles, dragdrop, icons, context menus, virtual items, infotips and renaming. Its powerful behavior control and customization functionality takes it miles ahead of Windows Explorer by adding features like item filtering, item checkboxes, custom items, custom columns and customization of context menus, dragdrop, appearance, display names, icons, overlay icons and infotips. . Also included is ShellObjects - a set of controls which bring various useful shell features to your app included the ability to display multiple MSN/Office2003 style popups, create quick launch-like appbars, animated tray icons and create and read shortcuts and internet shortcuts. Shell MegaPack has a royalty-free redistribution license; it has no external dependencies which allows ease of redistribution and it comes with comprehensive documentation and numerous samples to quickly get you started.The new version offers a substantial improvement in speed and efficiency and vastly improved support for a variety of IDEs and tools. The new version brings plenty of new features and functionality, new properties, methods and events and some bugfixes.
Verdict
Should you download Shell MegaPack ActiveX?
Shell MegaPack ActiveX runs on
Windows 10/11
and is available under the
Commercial
license
— the installer is 1956 KB.
We’ve catalogued it under
ActiveX.
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At a glance
Shell MegaPack ActiveX specifications
- Last updated
- Mar 12, 2025
- License
- Commercial
- Operating system
- Windows 10/11
- File size
- 1956 KB
- Price
- $295
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