TASK: Understand the DirectoryStyleList element

In this task you will understand the properties of the <DirectoryStyleList> element.

In this example we choose the <BaseQuery Name="Fred4Pages" in the FRED4_Config.xml configuration file.

You will be able to perform this task only if you already opened the FRED4_config.xml file as explained in TASK: Open for editing one or more files with directory styles.

Note

If all sections of the opened file are expanded, it will be difficult to locate the designated sections. Then, press CTRL+M and then CTRL+L to collapse the entire file before proceeding.

1.In Visual Studio, press CTRL+F and then type: <BaseQuery Name="Fred4Pages".

2.Notice that a base query may contain one or more elements, such as <Groups...> (optional), only one <DirectoryStyleList> and only one <SearchList>. The <DirectoryStyleList> is the element that actually contains the definitions of the directory styles.

3.Before the <DirectoryStyleList> click the sign to expand the element and to review all defined directory styles:

Conclusions

The <DirectoryStyleList> element contains a list of all available directory styles. The directory styles appear in the user interface in the same order they are defined in the configuration file, with the names, specified in the Name property.