AFAIK, you cannot control it programmatically. Let me know if you find a way to do that.

>Hello all,
>Does anyone know of a way to programmatically set the View Menu of the common dialog control. Once the control is open, you have a choice of "Large Icons, Small Icons, List, Details, Thumbnails" form the drop down menu. Mine always defaults to "List" but I would like to set it to "Details" when the user first sees it.
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>Thanks in advance!
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>Eric Vore