Browsing all drive in WPF tree view

Question

I am designing a folder explorer in WPF.

I am successful to browse a perticular drive [e:] using the below code :

<Window.Resources>
    <ObjectDataProvider x:Key="RootFolderDataProvider">
        <ObjectDataProvider.ObjectInstance>
            <folderExplorer:FolderExplorer FullPath="e:\" />
        </ObjectDataProvider.ObjectInstance>
    </ObjectDataProvider>

    <HierarchicalDataTemplate
        DataType    = "{x:Type folderExplorer:FolderExplorer}"
        ItemsSource = "{Binding Path=SubFolders}">
        <TextBlock Text="{Binding Path=Name}" />
    </HierarchicalDataTemplate>
</Window.Resources>


<TreeView Grid.Column="0"
          Name="RootTreeView"
          Background="AliceBlue"
          Foreground="Black" Grid.RowSpan="3" Margin="0,0,0,169">
    <TreeViewItem Header="Browse">
        <TreeViewItem.ItemsSource>
            <Binding Source="{StaticResource RootFolderDataProvider}">
                <Binding.Path>SubFolders</Binding.Path>
            </Binding>
        </TreeViewItem.ItemsSource>
    </TreeViewItem>
</TreeView>

How can I browse all drives, that is by Mycomputer. Let me know if any information is needed.

possible duplicate of [Folder browser to list all system drive in WPF](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22375801/folder-browser-to-list-all-system-drive-in-wpf) — Akon, Mar 24 '14 at 13:22

Sajeetharan · Answer 1 · 2014-03-12T17:57:03.977

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public void LoadDirectories()
{
    var drives = DriveInfo.GetDrives();
    foreach (var drive in drives)
    {
        this.treeView.Items.Add(this.GetItem(drive));
    }

here is the link,

WPF treeview Directory

here is the sample to bind in XAML

File explorer WPF

edited Mar 12 '14 at 17:57

answered Mar 12 '14 at 15:56

Sajeetharan

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Is not there a way to do it in XAML? – Akon Mar 12 '14 at 17:45
You can just binding it in XAML – Sajeetharan Mar 12 '14 at 17:46
Not sure on this..Can you guide me a bit more? – Akon Mar 12 '14 at 17:48
It's bad practice to use Items property - it breaks virtualization and contradicts to MVVM's idea. – Mr.B Jun 27 '16 at 07:34

Browsing all drive in WPF tree view

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