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iSilo™ 3.11, the initial release version of iSilo™, used the built-in document list control of Pocket PC to display the document list. Several issues and limitations of the control necessitated a major change in iSilo™ 3.15 to an entirely custom-implemented document list control. The following describes these issues and limitations:

• The behavior of the built-in document list control of Pocket PC differs between Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002:
  • Pocket PC: For the internal storage memory, the built-in document list control shows files within only the "\My Documents" folder and its immediate subfolders. For storage cards, the control mimicks this behavior and shows files within only the "\My Documents" folder of the storage card and the immediate subfolders of the "\My Documents" folder. When shown in the list, files on storage cards have a little storage card icon that overlays the file's normal icon to indicate that the file is on a storage card.
  • Pocket PC 2002: For the internal storage memory, the built-in document list control shows files within only the "\My Documents" folder and its immediate subfolders, the same behavior as on Pocket PC. However, for storage cards, the control shows files within only the subfolders of the top-level folder "\" of the storage card.
  • The main issues here is the inconsistency in where documents are located. Generally, you will want your iSilo™ document files stored in the "\My Documents\iSilo" folder regardless of whether or not they are in the internal storage memory or on a storage card. For Pocket PC 2002, the document list control limits files you can see to only those in top-level folders of the storage card, so files you have in the "\My Documents\iSilo" folder of your storage card are inaccessible.
• The built-in document list control does not provide the ability to set a different folder as the top-level folder. So if you create a folder within the "\My Documents\iSilo" folder and place some files in it, those files will not show up in the list.
• The built-in document list control does not provide the ability to hide the date or size columns.

iSilo™ 3.15 uses an entirely custom-implemented document list control to address the issues described above and to provide additional features:

• For both Pocket PC and Pocket PC 2002, the behavior becomes identical.
• You can set the top-level folder to either "My Documents" or "My Documents\iSilo":
  • If you set the top-level folder to "My Documents", you can see all files within the "My Documents" folder and those of its immediate subfolders. This applies for files stored either in the internal storage memory or on storage cards.
  • If you set the top-level folder to "My Documents\iSilo", you can see all files within the "My Documents\iSilo" folder and those of its immediate subfolders. This applies for files stored either in the internal storage memory or on storage cards. This is the default top-level folder in which iSilo™ starts. This allows you to create subfolders within the "My Documents\iSilo" folder for organizing your iSilo™ document files. With the built-in Pocket PC document list control, you would not be able to do this.
• You can show and hide any combination of the file extension, date, and size so that for example, you can hide the file extension and size to leave more room to display longer filenames.
• Internally, the custom-implemented document list allows iSilo™ to keep better track of the settings for a file when you move or rename it.
• Going forward, the custom-implemented document list control will provide the ability to add additional customized features.

If you are using Pocket PC 2002, you will notice differences when going from version 3.11 to 3.15:

• You can not set the top-level folder to the root folder "\".
• Because of the previous point, on Pocket PC 2002, iSilo™'s document list does not show files in any root subfolders except the "My Documents" folder. So, for example, the list will not show files in the "\Business" folder of your storage card, but it will show files in the "\My Documents\Business" folder of your storage card. But since you can not use other applications to view iSilo™ documents, you should not generally need to store iSilo™ document files in other folders. If you do, then you can still always open the file from within "File Explorer" as long as you associate iSilo™ with the ".pdb" extension and the document file has that extension.
• You are recommended to place your iSilo™ document files in either the "\My Documents\iSilo" folder or its direct subfolders. For example, if you had iSilo™ document files in your "\Business" folder of your storage card, you are recommended to use "File Explorer" to move them to the "\My Documents\iSilo\Business" folder of your storage card.