Shell Notifications
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:24:01 -0800
Is there any way my app can receive a notification that the Shell itself has
been restarted?
My application must maintain a notify icon in the "systray," and if
explorer.exe crashes and restarts for any reason, my app needs to know so
that it can recreate the icon.
Thank you. ...
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IsElevationRequired?
Sun, 13 Jan 2008 01:41:43 +0100
Hi,
I'm looking for a way to determine whether Vista will require elevation
for a given executable. There doesn't seem to be a documented API, but
Google gave me IsElevationRequired() which is exported by shell32.dll as
ordinal 865. Does anyone know the signature of this function and how it
is to be used?
Or ...
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Focus rectangles don't show up initially in Vista
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:38:03 -0800
I'm seeing a problem in my application where, when a dialogue or property
sheet first opens, the focus rectangle on the control that has focus doesn't
show up. It's only after user interaction with the dialogue (moving to
different controls using the tab or arrow keys or the mouse) that the focus
rectangle s ...
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NSE & BindToObject() issues
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:49:24 -0500
LOL... Once upon a time, in a quiet little Windows environment, I had an NSE
that I'd written that was working really well. It presented 1 level of
virtual folders beneath the root folder of the NSE, and each virtual folder
was related to one real file system location, whether it be a location on a
local vo ...
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Will Explorer Respect Parity of DllGetClassObject/DllCanUnloadNow?
Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:32:36 -0800 (PST)
Hi All,
I am about to circumvent the notorious restrictions on the permitted
complexity of operations that can be reliably performed in DllMain by
putting my "do-it" operations in DllGetClassObject and my "undo-it"
operations in DllCanUnloadNow, as suggested by Jim Barry.
Normally these "do-it/undo-it" oper ...
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[Folder extension] view a folder as a file
Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:33:37 +0100
Hi all,
I've a little question.
I've a folder with files. e.g. foobar.vgl
I would add a namespace shell extension to this folder.
This extension should customize the folder as file foobar.vgl.
I can double-click on foobar.vgl and it will be open with the standard
application. It has no representation in th ...
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Folder namespace extension
Wed, 9 Jan 2008 17:48:00 -0800
Hello,
I am trying to implement a namespace extension that redirects to other
folder. If user clicks on the extension icon, they'll be redirected to the
folder that the extension icon points to. I tried to use ShellExecute method
in CreateViewObject:
ShellExecute(hwndOwner, L"open", L"C:\", NULL, NULL, 0 ...
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Retrieving path for Folder returned by Shell BrowseForFolder
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 22:09:55 -0500
What is the correct way to retrieve the fully qualified path for a Folder
object returned by a Shell object's BrowseForFolder method?
Thanks in advance.
David Liebtag
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Filetype Open With
Tue, 8 Jan 2008 16:26:00 -0800
When you right click on a file you get an "Open With" menu with options for
what application you want to open the file with, how can I add my application
to this menu? I have played around with these registry keys:
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.xml\OpenWithList\
How ever cannot seem to get it to work.
Thanks ...
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tray icon from a service on vista
Mon, 7 Jan 2008 12:28:52 -0800 (PST)
I have a service that adds/displays a tray icon when started. I've
been testing on Vista and no luck. it seems that Shell_NotifyIcon can
not find the tray window... it is failing with "file not found".
I've tried retries, etc.
I've also tried starting it directly from the "Services" Snap-in. No
luck.
A ...
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