Simple Explorer context menu?

[Clive Lumb]

Hi,

I am writing a simple application which will be used to examine and
categorise video files.
I would like to add a context menu entry in Windows Explorer for my
application for avi, mpg, mkv files etc. which would be simply "Examine with
my Kick-ass app".

I have searched high and low on Google and MSDN and have only come up with a
couple of examples; one of which simply consists of adding a registry entry
in the shell\open section of "avifile" (this doesn't work btw for avifile
btw, though the example does seem to work for txtfile), the other got me
completely lost in registering COM etc.

There seem to be a few professional add-ons available, but I don't really
need to spend $150 and have colours and icons in my context menus.

Has anybody any experience or links to share please?

Many TIA

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Clive,

As you want to use a contextmenu on the client, then you should use the
software that is on the client.

Every piece of software using ASPX is written (translated (rendered) from
the serverside code)

As far as I know does overwritting the method for the context menu in a
WebBrowser not standare exist.
However you can maybe create JavaScript that you can register on the client.

An example about is this (not the context menu)

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/b11a5cc53efa073c

Cor

 

[Clive Lumb]

Clive,

As you want to use a contextmenu on the client, then you should use the
software that is on the client.

Every piece of software using ASPX is written (translated (rendered) from
the serverside code)

As far as I know does overwritting the method for the context menu in a
WebBrowser not standare exist.
However you can maybe create JavaScript that you can register on the
client.

An example about is this (not the context menu)

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb/msg/b11a5cc53efa073c

Cor

Hello Cor,
Thanks for the answer but I am talking about a windows forms application,
not ASPX.
Note that I should have said "Windows Explorer" rather than just "Explorer"
to make this clear.

Incidentally I found far more examples of custom context menus for IE than
for WE.

Cheers
Clive

 

[Cor Ligthert[MVP]]

Clive,

Sorry, not so at the time at the moment, this is a registry add, you can not
do that at setup in fact although some companies think that they have that
freedom is it in fact hacking as you don't ask the user if they want this.

Should be easy to find on internet.

This one looks for me what you was asking
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1838907,00.asp

Cor

 

[Clive Lumb]

Clive,

Sorry, not so at the time at the moment, this is a registry add, you can
not do that at setup in fact although some companies think that they have
that freedom is it in fact hacking as you don't ask the user if they want
this.

Should be easy to find on internet.

This one looks for me what you was asking
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,1838907,00.asp

Cor

Thanks Cor,
The link you sent is for a manual addition - I wanted to have an option in
my app to add/remove it from the context menu (such as you find in Winzip
etc.).

Should be easy to find on internet.

That's what I thought too, unfortunately I seem to come up with commercial
products and solutions for IE.

I'll keep on looking.