What is RecycleEnumerator Component?

Putting it simly, it is a COM component that you can use to enumerate all the items in a user's recycle bin programatically. This component makes your life easy by hiding all the ugly implementation dealing with windows API. With one simple call you get an enumerator back which you can iterate over to get items one by one. What is special about this component is that it does not stop at giving you just the name of the item in the recycle bin, it also returns you details as follows.

• Item Name
• Full Path, yes it does give you the actual location where the item is stored.
• Small Icon associated with the item
• Large Icon associated with the item
• File Size
• Value indicating if the item is a folder or file

So you can see that by using this component you can selectively pick which item to delete from the recycle bin instead of calling SHEmptyRecycleBin API to remove all items. So if you are writing an application in which you provide user to delete the stuff from recycle bin, you can add an extra puch to it by letting users pick what they want and what they want to delete. The use of this component does not just stop here. It opens door to lot of usage possibilities.