I have a simple script to make file transfers between a local directory and an MTP device. For the MTP device, I created a ComObject and traversed to the desired directory. Then, I use the CopyHere ...

I implemented an IThumbnailProvider to create custom thumbnails in the Windows File Explorer for my application. That works as expected. Windows switches from custom thumbnails to the default file ...

When adding a custom option to the context menu for different types of icons, this code works fine: with reg.CreateKey(reg.HKEY_CURRENT_USER, base_path) as main_key: reg.SetValueEx(main_key, '...

I have a Winforms application published using ClickOnce. I want users to be able to right-click a file in Windows Explorer and select "Send To → Crawler", which should then launch my ...

When I call SHFileOperation, I get the old style UI. For example the copy dialog doesn't have the speed chart, the replace files confirmation dialog shows one file at a time instead of listing them ...

How to open browse for folder dialog using SHBrowseForFolder function in Visual Basic for Applications with a root folder and second folder below selected with the mouse in the folder tree, even deep, ...

If you navigate Explorer into a shell namespace extension, and then navigate away from the namespace extension into some other folder branch, then Explorer will release all instances of the namespace ...

I am using windows cloud file API (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/cfapi/cloud-files-api-portal) to create some local placeholder files to represent the data from cloud. For most of ...

I have set some custom properties on a file in cloud file workspace using StorageProviderItemProperties.SetASync(IStorageItem, IEnumerable). I am now trying to retrieve the values later using below ...

I have a context menu under Windows 11 that implements the IExplorerCommand interface in C++. The menu contains 7 items, each with 3 submenus. In the "new" Windows 11 context menu, all menu ...

I found out that ShellExecute(..., L"open", ...) will choose to launch a shortcut instead of folder when the path is clearly a folder, when the folder and the shortcut has the same name ...

I am trying to install a context menu handler written in C++ that implements IExplorerCommand. For installation, I use the instructions which are specified in this repository: https://github.com/...

I'm trying to register a context menu that implements the IExplorerCommand interface in C++. I used the example from Microsoft as a basis: https://github.com/microsoft/AppModelSamples/blob/master/...

I'm trying to implement IContextMenu, but I'm having some difficulties. In the QueryContextMenu method I add the menu like this: HRESULT QueryContextMenu( HMENU hmenu, UINT indexMenu, ...

I have a shell extension that implements a context menu for text files. In the shell extension, I need to determine the path of the file for which this context menu was called. For this, I decided to ...