Invoke Shell Context Menu?
Aug 9, 2011How can I invoke the standard Windows Shell Context menu for a file orfolder from vb.net?
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View 3 RepliesIve created a shell context menu dll using the great example at [url]...
This dll can be included in a vb.net setup project and installs ok but upon uninstall Windows prompts the user to close explorer.exe for the uninstall to complete. If the user clicks ok then the windows GUI is lost and the user either needs to reboot or know how to run task manager and startup another instance of explorer.exe to get their desktop back.
Does anyone know how to go about uninstalling a context menu dll which is currently in use by explorer without ending the explorer.exe process.
I have a VB2008 music-player program with a listview that acts as a playlist. I created Windows Shell Context Menu entries in the registry for MP3 etc files, so if I right-click such a file in Windows Explorer it gives the option: Play in MyProg. If multiple files are selected in Windows Explorer and sent to be played in MyProg, the first one must be sent to the music player (part of same prog) and the others must be added to the playlist (listview). For this reason I must know whether a commandline call is just a single one or whether other context menu calls will follow.
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I know this has been asked many times before, but since google is flooded with advertising upon this subject i thought i might try here. the problem is pretty much, how the ____ do i add an item to windows explorer context menus. I specifically want to target .xls file "Excel" Files. I understand that i can make an item by creating a key and sub Key in * registry. but besides that i am lost.
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of field with working in the registry and shell but I figured I would ask this question. I want to learn how to make a shell context menu associated with my program for a given filetype or any filetype
View 6 Repliesworking in the registry and shell but I figured I would ask this question. I want to learn how to make a shell context menu associated with my program for a given filetype or any filetype. But I want to know how I can add it and remove it.
View 3 RepliesSeeing how Notepad++ does this, is it possible to achieve something like this:using Registry class?
View 1 RepliesVB express 2008 .net 3.5 or .net 4.0 VB express 2010?I have written application to convert RTF to HTML. The main Purpose of the application is to copy VS code to the clipboard and covert it then put it back into the clipboard as a HTML Document so that it can be pasted into a HTML document such as Windows Live Mail. I found that code copied and pasted is spaced out in in the wrong positions.
The applications works perfect with no bugs so far. I then asked Myself how to go about doing the copy with the least amount of operator interaction. So I added an Icon to the Icon Tray with a right click menu to use to convert once the Rich Text Format was copied to the clipboard. This works fine except you have Five steps, Select the text, Copy to clipboard, Right Click the icon, Select the Converter and Paste. The normal is three steps.
To this the best solution is to add a context menu item to the active form such as the RTF editor or window. So that when you select the Rich Text to copy and right click on the form to bring up that menu then to Just Select the menu Item such as "Copy RT and Convert" I searched and found about 544000 Items and tried to restrict down to no avail. I read until I finally gave up. I did not find any code examples of this. Almost every thing I found related to the web or some other explicit document like Excel and not to the Various windows that could be active with RT in it.
how do you add a context menu item to the context menu of an active rich text format window such as WordPad or VB?I have test in my application that tests to see if it is a RTF in the clipboard so if it is not the converter does nothing.
Imports System.Threading
Imports System.IO
Imports System
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I'm trying to get my context menu appear in my tasktray, while the tray appears the menu doesnt when i right click. Here is all my code associated with my task tray:
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Suppose I have ToolStripMenuItem mnuOrderOptions that contains the three drop down items. I want to copy all the items are their respective event handlers to Contextmenu on button click & then bound that context menu with the form.
Private Sub AToolStripMenuItem_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles AToolStripMenuItem.Click
MsgBox("A")
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how to clone the menu items and then bound it to form context menu.
I open a context menu by right clicking it.
It stays open when the cursor leaves it.
I click a main menu item.
The drop down opens at the top left of the screen.
Not under the main menu item I clicked.
I want to search the Internet but can't guess what key words to use.
I have a blank form and when the use right clicks on the form, they get a context menu with any number of names in the menu. This changes depending on the situation. I can get the context menu to add/remove the list of names but when I click on one of the choices and it goes to my routine (from addhandler) I can't find the property that tells me what they clicked on...
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i want to show context menu on drop down menu item right click...As an example,Suppose we add bookmark in mozilla & when we right click on that item..context menu is showing
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Private Sub MenuAddToFavorites_MouseDown(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.Windows.Forms.MouseEventArgs) Handles MenuAddToFavorites.MouseDown
If e.Button = Windows.Forms.MouseButtons.Right Then
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I know that right click menu is locked in the accdr mode. Is there any vba code to force this menu appear on right click?What i want in the menu is "cut, copy, paste". Now i only have paste functionality without any menu appearing
Private Sub Text22_MouseDown(Button As Integer, Shift As Integer, X As Single, Y As Single)
f Button = 2 Then
CommandBars("Edit").Controls("Paste").Execute <---i want to replace this code with one
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I want to show a context menu on right click on a menu, but the menu disappears every time it is right clicked and I dont get the right coordinates for my menu.
Here is my code:
Code:Private Sub colMenus_MenuContextMenu(ByRef Sender As Object, ByRef e As clscolMenus.MenuContextEventArgs) Handles colMenus.MenuContextMenu Dim p As Drawing.Point Dim tm As ToolStripMenuItem
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I have added a context menu at design time at VB.Net 2010. But I need to add a sub menu at run time to that context menu.
View 2 RepliesI want to run my application on Windows Desktop when click my Shell Item in right Menu, for example any antivirus application add a menu for Scan item on the right menu of Windows and you can click right button on a file and scan the file via Antivirus Application how can i do this ?
i think i have to add a value on the Registry(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOTDirectoryShell)
Is there another way to add a Context Menu to a ToolStrip other than using the MouseDown Event? I want to use it to let people select to either show text labels on buttons in the ToolStrip or turn them off.
View 6 RepliesHow to put my video player to the context menu? But I also need to know how to make it so that when my video player opens that it will it will load the file that I wanted to open with my video player.
View 13 RepliesIs there any way I can assign a Context Menu with a button on my form?There is nothing in the properties window that allows me to do this.
View 1 RepliesI Wont Save Selected Traget & Save Selected Image& Save Selected Link& Copy Image& View Iamge
View 10 RepliesI have an application that is simply an icon that sits in the system tray, with a context menu that opens upon right-clicking. One of the options in the menu is a text box where the user can enter a number, and press enter to perform a specific action (which is not significant to my question). The problem with this, however, is that if the mouse moves away from the text box, the menu closes.
Is there a way to keep the menu open as long as the text box has focus no matter what?
I have an application. If I press a button, a menu show up.
How do I get a handle to that menu?
I use spy ++. It seems that the menu is not a child of the button.
I use FindWindowEx but I don't think I got the right handle.
Here is another possibly related question
Why the handle of a menu is of type HMENU rather than HWND?
In VB.net they're both integer right?
how use context menu on browser and close menu windows
View 14 RepliesI've attached a context menu to a richtextbox. This textbox contains lines of data, and I want to find the text of the line which the user has pressed.I found how to do it after the user has chosen one of the context menu items. But I can't figure out how to do it before or when the context menu is opened. The reason for that is that I'd like to disable one of the context menu items if the line of text is missing some text. I tried the following but it's not working:
Private Sub ContextMenuStrip1_Opening(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.ComponentModel.CancelEventArgs)
RichTextBox1.GetLineFromCharIndex(RichTextBox1.SelectionStart)
Dim line As Integer = RichTextBox1.GetLineFromCharIndex(RichTextBox1.SelectionStart)
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ok, i've been able to figure out that i can add a button to a menubar (like the file edit view, ones at the top of most programs) and so far i have figured out:
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
form1.MenuStrip1.Items.Add(TextBox1.Text)
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I have an INI file that contains several of these following entries.The Section names are all labled ASSET_CONTROLS_#.[code]The "Name" field should be added to the ContextMenuStrip control as a ToolStripMenuItem.If there is a value in "SubMenuNames" in the INI file, the ToolStripMenuItem created from the "Name" field, should have a DropDownItem created under it. I have separated multiple SubMenuNames with a SemiColon, so a loop would be used to create the separate menu items.Command and Parameters are to be used with the Process.Start function when the Menu Item is clicked. What is the best way to code this? I have been trying to do the event handling for the menu items for hours now and can't get it right. I basically want to call a procedure and pass the "Command & Parameter" values to it to use the Process.Start function.[code]
View 11 RepliesThis is not strictly .net code question but I have a project that i want to open from a folder(not file) context menu and pass the folder path to my program like open with but this is not visiable from a folder.
View 2 RepliesI want to add a context menu to a form's caption. When I right click on it to show a menu.
View 6 RepliesI need some code to add the contextmeu to the richbox Not the tabcontrol But the richtextbox is in the control, So I have the CType(TabControl1.SelectedTab.Controls.Item(0),RichTextBox) But now what to add the context menu?
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