context menu work

inzo21

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Hello all.

I'm trying to build an application that hooks into the context menun system of Win2k or better Os's. For example, when the user right clicks on a file or folder, I need to place a link in that context menu to trigger an event.

Does anyone have any ideas on where I can get more info on this? I've looked at Interop and don't want to pull in the Win32 API yet if I can help it (for app deployment purposes). In VB6, I used a context menu handler object and registered the app in the registry. I'd like to avoid this as well if possible.

thank in advance!

inzo
 
IIRC the only way to extend the shell's context menu is through COM. You would have to do pretty much the same as you did in VB6, writting the DLL, registering it etc.
 
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