WP7 Access to files and folders of the phone

Question

How to access files and folders from the phone’s memory, and not to the application’s memory (i.e., isolated storage)?

Answer 1

It's impossible. Each application has its own directory and permissions to work inside it. No access to files outside this directory.

You can use launchers and selectors to get some data from other places (for example, a list of contacts or photos), but you cannot directly access these files.

Answer 2

I saw the ability to load the SQL database from the application installation directory (non-isolated storage). See http://blog.arsanth.com/index.php/2011/06/02/working-with-pre-populated-sql-ce-databases-in-wp7/ for more details. This can be done using a connection string, for example. datasource='appdata:/db.sdf'; mode='read only' datasource='appdata:/db.sdf'; mode='read only' . You might be able to do something similar to reading files from the application installation directory.

Answer 3

there is something called IsolStorageExplorer → http://wp7explorer.codeplex.com/