Windows Intergration

[Lee]

Hi,

How do you integrate an application into windows, for instance right
clicking a file on the desktop or in a folder brings up a menu of things you
can do (delete, rename, send to..) I wish to add my application to this
context menu.

thanks in advance

 

[Ignacio Machin \( .NET/ C# MVP \)]

Hi,


AFAIK this is not an easy task, I'm yet to see an easy way of doing it, all
the posts & scripts I have seen require a good deal of P/invoking
take a look at this article
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ing/extensionhandlers/contextmenuhandlers.asp

It's in C++

also search google

 

[Lucian Wischik]

How do you integrate an application into windows, for instance right
clicking a file on the desktop or in a folder brings up a menu of things you
can do (delete, rename, send to..) I wish to add my application to this
context menu.

Here's an example. Run regedit. Look at

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.txt
This has the value "txtfile". So, look up

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\open\command
This has the value "%SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1"

In other words, when the user right-clicks on a .txt file, the context
menu shows the verb "Open". And if the user selects Open, then it
invokes the command-line above (substituting the filename for %1).

You can add your own verbs easily. Just create
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\txtfile\shell\MyVerb\command
with appropriate stuff in it.

 

[Tony Clark]

what about assigning a context menu to all file types?

 

[Lucian Wischik]

what about assigning a context menu to all file types?

I can't remember offhand. But the relevant MSDN topics are:

Extending Shortcut Menus
Shell Basics