Build Custom File System or Dialog Boxes

[technipixel]

I remember in the old VB6 days, there was these tacky FileSyetem controls that you could use for file systems and creating your own dialog boxes.
However, I know in .NET those were done away with a while back.

I would like to create my own File System (including the modern icons) that shows the Desktop and all drives etc.
And then just use a List View for displaying the folder/file names....

Where am I looking to begin code-wise?

[jmcilhinney]

I remember in the old VB6 days, there was these tacky FileSyetem controls that you could use for file systems and creating your own dialog boxes.
However, I know in .NET those were done away with a while back.

It's not that they were done away with but rather that they never existed. VB6 wasn't a starting point for VB.NET. Things that exist in VB.NET that existed in VB6 were built specifically for VB.NET. Anything that existed in VB6 but doesn't in VB.NET was never built.

I would like to create my own File System (including the modern icons) that shows the Desktop and all drives etc.
And then just use a List View for displaying the folder/file names....

That sounds like you're talking about simply a visual representation of the existing file system, not your own file system.

Where am I looking to begin code-wise?

The System.IO namespace has types for working with drives, folders and files. If you want to perform some more exotic operations then you may need to fall back to Windows API calls.