dirkster99 / mrulib

Implements a WPF/MVVM Control libray (with backend) that manages a MRU (Most Recently Used) list of files

 Overview

The MRUib project supplies MVVM/WPF controls that manage a Most Recently Used list of files. See CodeProject article for more details.

Details and Demo Applications

This library Implements a WPF/MVVM Control libray (with backend) that manages a Most Recently Used list of files:

• with saving/loading settings from to XML
• List can be grouped by last access (Pinned, Today, Yesterday, Last Week)
• A recently used files menu entry sorted by last access (without grouping is also supported)
• Pinned entries can be moved up and down in the list
• List entries can be removed based on their age (e.g. Remove all entries older than 1 week)
• Support for Light/Dark theming is build in
• Entries in a ListView (or other constrained size view) can be trimmed using Ellipses '...' characters at the Left, Right, or Center of the text string

See ShowEllipses dependency property of the:

• PathTrimmingFileHyperlink
• PathTrimmingTextBlock

for more details.

There is a demo application and unit test project to demonstrate usage of the control and document each feature, such as, the ability to configure a minimum and maximum value that can be used to keep the resulting number of list entries within defined bounds.

Theming

Load Light or Dark brush resources in you resource dictionary to take advantage of existing definitions.

    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="/MRULib;component/Themes/DarkBrushes.xaml" />
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

    <ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>
        <ResourceDictionary Source="/MRULib;component/Themes/LightBrushes.xaml" />
    </ResourceDictionary.MergedDictionaries>

These definitions do not theme all controls used within this library. You should use a standard theming library, such as:

• MahApps.Metro,
• MLib, or
• MUI

to also theme standard elements, such as, button and textblock etc.

This library is the third attempt on the subject. See Codeplex to find the last version of this library: http://mrulist.codeplex.com/.

Sample Applications:

• Edi (see screeenshots below)
• XmlExplorer

mrulib's Issues

Make CheckPin.IsMouseOverListViewItemProperty public

CheckPin.IsMouseOverListViewItemProperty is currently private which leads to errors during design time listed in the Error Lost.
While compilation and program execution work fine, hot reload does not work since an error is present in the Error List.

Unnecessary 'source/packages' folder

Hi,
Thanks for sharing your code. Good job!

There's yet a small glitch I'd like to point out. I noticed that you included
https://github.com/Dirkster99/MRULib/tree/master/source/packages . The better practice, however, is to just include packages.config, witch you did, and let people restore the packages themselves.
The source/packages folder should also be included in .gitingnore file.

BTW, GitHub offers a nice VisualStudio .gitingnore template when you create a new repository.

Why "Pinned" group is not top of the list?

Hi~
I want to use this library, but something is strange.
When all items are not pinned, if I click the pin of first item, the "Pinned" group is under the "Today" group.

Other items do not happen this. Is it a bug? How can I fix it?

Thanks in advance.

Handle "Open containing folder" when MRU entry *is* a folder and not a file.

Hi!

Just started using your MRU code and like it very much. :) I'm actually using folder paths as the MRU entries and things seem to be working well. I did make one change to handle the "Open containing folder" context menu choice. I've attached the file with my changes if you (or anyone) wants them.

FileSystemCommands.zip