Microsoft File Explorer with Eclipse

Create a new project "de.vogella.microsoft.fileexplorer". See Eclipse RCP For Details.

Add a view to the application and the perspective. To display the file explorer you can use the following code for your view.

   
package de.vogella.microsoft.fileexplorer;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWTError;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OLE;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleAutomation;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleClientSite;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleFrame;
import org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.Variant;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart;

public class FileExplorerView extends ViewPart {
 private OleClientSite site;
 static final int Navigate = 0x68;

 @Override
 public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
  try {
   OleFrame frame = new OleFrame(parent, SWT.NONE);
   site = new OleClientSite(frame, SWT.NONE, "Shell.Explorer.1");
   site.doVerb(OLE.OLEIVERB_INPLACEACTIVATE);
   OleAutomation auto = new OleAutomation(site);
   auto.invoke(Navigate, new Variant[] { new Variant("c:\\temp") });
  } catch (SWTError e) {
   System.out.println("Unable to open activeX control");
   return;
  }

 }

 @Override
 public void setFocus() {
  site.setFocus();
 }

}