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[link8506]

Hi,


I'd like to share with you a preview of an app I've been working on over the last few weeks.
It's an alternative to the file explorer included in Windows 8, designed to be more touch screen friendly and with a metro style UI (however it is not a metro/winRT app because the WinRT sandbox wouldn't allow full access to the file system).

Most features are not yet implemented, but some are already usable (md5/sha1 hash calculation, photo viewer).
btw, it should work on Windows 7 too if you want to give it a try.

Download link and other screenshots available here : http://www.julien-manici.com/immersive_explorer/

[Nazmus Shakib Khandaker]

Wow, this looks nice! Can't wait to see more features added. Does this auto-update?

[link8506]

Nazmus Shakib Khandaker, on 29 July 2012 - 06:02, said:

Wow, this looks nice! Can't wait to see more features added. Does this auto-update?

It will tell you if an update is available, but it won't install automatically.
I will release a new version every few days, so you should try it again next week, you'll see a lot of différences ^^

[Neobond]

Impressive, added to main http://www.neowin.ne...rer-for-windows

There needs to be a way we can pin this to the start screen as well

[Xerax]

If you want a few pointers in WPF to give it that *special* touch, hit me up on Skype: alexerax.

[TheJudge]

it just crashes when i try to run it on my work PC (Win7 x86, intel pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM)

[link8506]

Neobond, on 29 July 2012 - 08:26, said:

Impressive, added to main http://www.neowin.ne...rer-for-windows

thanks

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There needs to be a way we can pin this to the start screen as well

yeah it's ugly right now... I didn't create an icon yet because I didn't expect people would want to pin such an early beta of my app on their start screen.

[rfirth]

Works pretty well here, but randomly crashes when buttons are pressed. Never seems to consistently crash, but it doesn't take long.

Pretty nice. I'm impressed. Obviously needs work, but you already know that

[link8506]

Xerax, on 29 July 2012 - 08:37, said:

If you want a few pointers in WPF to give it that *special* touch, hit me up on Skype: alexerax.

thanks. I'll add you on Skype to talk about that.

TheJudge, on 29 July 2012 - 09:10, said:

it just crashes when i try to run it on my work PC (Win7 x86, intel pentium 4 CPU 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM)

indeed, I accidentally forced the compilation for 64 bit only on the two libraries used by the main EXE.
I just published the version 0.1.1 to fix that.

rfirth, on 29 July 2012 - 09:51, said:

Works pretty well here, but randomly crashes when buttons are pressed. Never seems to consistently crash, but it doesn't take long.

Pretty nice. I'm impressed. Obviously needs work, but you already know that

yeah there is still a lot of bugs. I've seen it crash on one of my computers but not on my development machine. I will have to install visual studio on it to understand why it crashes randomly. It seems that it happens when some picture thumbnails are loading.

[LightShadow]

Love it. Very well made even for a very early version, well done!
One feature I'd like to request in a future version, is the ability to pin folders to the Common Folder section. I use SkyDrive folders a lot so it would be useful .

[link8506]

Possession, on 29 July 2012 - 10:48, said:

Love it. Very well made even for a very early version, well done!

thanks

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One feature I'd like to request in a future version, is the ability to pin folders to the Common Folder section. I use SkyDrive folders a lot so it would be useful .

yes, I was planning to implement favorite/pinned folders on the main screen. It wasn't a priority for this preview version, but it will come before version 1.0 comes out.

[Neobond]

I didn't get an update notification, is there an about screen somewhere that I can't find?

[Jarrichvdv]

Dude, keep it up! Awesome work.

[link8506]

Neobond, on 29 July 2012 - 11:05, said:

I didn't get an update notification, is there an about screen somewhere that I can't find?

That's because I didn't mark the version 0.1.0 as outdated on my server. When I'll do it, an ugly message box will be displayed at startup asking the user to upgrade ^^
I'll improve the updating process in a future version.

Jarrichvdv, on 29 July 2012 - 11:06, said:

Dude, keep it up! Awesome work.

thank you

[Neobond]

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