Recent Files list - Is there a simple way?

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In my Windows Forma application, I would like to add a recent file list as
part of a menu. I am thinking of adding an entry in registry whenever the
user select a file and process it and then retrieve it back from registry. I
also need to shorten the file name so that the menu's width will not be very
large. This means some parsing codes.

Since this functionality is very common, I am wondering is there a built in
function or some simple code which can accomplish this?

Appreciate your comments/suggestions.

Regards,
Paddy
 
Doesn't the FileInfo class have a few properties for create, last accessed
and so on?
 
Paddy said:
In my Windows Forma application, I would like to add a recent file list as
part of a menu. I am thinking of adding an entry in registry whenever the
user select a file and process it and then retrieve it back from registry.
I
also need to shorten the file name so that the menu's width will not be
very
large. This means some parsing codes.
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Add Most Recently Used Files (MRU) List to Windows Applications
<URL:http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/mru.asp>
 
You should point out that this is only good if used on VS 2005 with
Generics...

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You should point out that this is only good if used on VS 2005 with
Generics...
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ahum... I'm so used to it now....
(more than 8 month that I work with it :-)
 
Herfried,
Thanks for directing me to a resource. I implemented a similar solution
already. I was thinking that Microsoft had these functionality already
implemented as part of the framework.

My solution is not based on a class. But, the logic is similar. I use the
registry to store the information.

Thanks.
Paddy
 
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