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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How can I invoke the standard Windows Shell Context menu for a file orfolder from vb.net?
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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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 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)
I am writing an app and I was wondering how could you add something to the windows context-menu (when you right click on the windows exspor) like in 7Zip or winRAR to preform certain actions i.e. encrypt filezip file; in vb.net, or perhaps is there a way in the windows installer template?
View 1 Repliesi want to add my program to the windows context menu so that whenever user right clicks on any file of folder my program should display on the context menu so that the user can use my program to do some operation on the selected file or folder.
I know how to add a new program to the windows context menu manually. by editing the windows registry we can do that. but i want to do when user istall my application it has to add to the context menu automatically.
i used the code below to register a menu item in the Explorer context menu. Aldo this works just fine there is one problem with it. When i select multiple files and then press the button my application is fired up multiple times. Now what i would like is to it to be fired once and then pass on the multiple files that where selected..
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how can i add an item to the windows explorer context menu, that will only be enabled when the user right clicks a .zip file? also, how do i handle that items click event?
View 5 RepliesI have the code below to access Folder when i right click any folder in windows explorer, it works. My question is i want to add icon to the context menu name like winzip or winrar [code]...
View 5 RepliesI want to add an item to the computers context menu, I want that item to have an image and to have sub items.
View 1 Replieshow to add a context menu to the Windows Explorer for particular file or all files.
View 6 RepliesVS 2005 how to add a context menu to the Windows Explorer
View 1 RepliesI'm needing to apply more options on the Windows context menu at the time I right click on a .lnk file based on the target.
View 4 RepliesWhen I right click on the Forms header it was showing the default windows menu with Items (Restore, Move ,Resize , Maximize..). I need to display the Context menu which we have created instead of display Windows menu. We want to hide the windows default.
View 8 Replieshow can i add an item to the windows explorer context menu, that will only be enabled when the user right clicks a .zip file? also, how do i handle that items click event?
View 5 RepliesI am looking for a code that can help me Disable Refresh Entry from Right Click Context Menu.One more thing is with refresh Menu entry I want to make a search in Context menu and if there is an entry name = abc than I want to disable it too. So any idea how to proceed.So far I have gathered this information that this command can help me, but as am a newbee in .NET.[code]
View 10 RepliesI want to be able to add only a certain context menu to Windows Explorer when a condition is met, that is, when a folder is right click, I should be only add the context menu if that folder is in a certain state.
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.
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I have developed a window application in VB.Net now i want to add my executables to the windows explorer right click menu.so that whenever user right clicks on any folder or any file then in the menu litst mu application executables should be there.How do i achieve this in the vb.net.
View 1 RepliesThis context menu is pops up where the user right clicks inside a dataGridView
When adding the items the VB code is
Dim m As New ContextMenu()
m.MenuItems.Add(New MenuItem("Disassociate *A* Device"))
m.MenuItems.Add(New MenuItem("Purge Device Assosciations"))
Is there no simple way to reference a resource to add an icon to said menuItems?
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m.MenuItem(0).Icon.Source = ....
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I have an application which displays thumbnails of files in a folder. I want to add the feature where the users can right click on a file and get that windows context menu. You know the one. It allows you to choose an application from a list to open the file with.
I seem to remember asking this ages ago but I can't find the thread.
I've created an application that displays a NotifyIcon when an event happens.
Public ContextMenu1 As New ContextMenu
Public NotifyIcon1 As New NotifyIcon
Public Sub CreateIconMenuStructure()
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In the form load to "Initialise" the NotifyIcon it then works fine when made visibleinvisible by code in the OnRegChanged event.
disabling the context menu for webbrowser control in Windows forms using c#.
View 2 RepliesI need to be able to send keycode keys.apps (windows context menu key) to an application. Surely if I can detect the keypress, there's a way to send the keypress, right?
What I'm doing is having a 3rd party app save a screenshot and the only way to have it do so is through its right click context menu.
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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I'm going to attempt to make a shell replacement for the Windows default shell: explorer.exe. I'm not sure if its possible using Vb.Net, but I can't seem why not. My end goal is to use a custom made shell for a Windows Preinstallation Environment instead of the default command prompt. I plan to use a 3rd party program to compile the program with the .NET Framework. Otherwise, it wouldn't work because Windows PE does not support the .NET Framework.
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