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Introduction

I am currently working on an Advanced text editor, and I was looking for a way to implement the Window's shell context menu in my code. I came across Andreas Johansson's WebLog which provided me with the answer. He took some of the code that Steven Roebert created and placed it in one file for ease of use. His code had several errors that were easily corrected, and now I am posting the finished product.

Using the Code

The code is pretty straightforward to use:

1. Add the ShellContextMenu.cs file to your project.
2. Create a new instance of the ShellContextMenu class.
3. Call the ShowContextMenu method with the proper arguments.
   1. FileInfo/DirectoryInfo Array - A list of files/directories that need the Context Menu
   2. Point - Point to Display Context Menu

    // Sample code

    ShellContextMenu ctxMnu = new ShellContextMenu();
    FileInfo[] arrFI = new FileInfo[1];
    arrFI[0] = new FileInfo(this.treeMain.SelectedNode.Tag.ToString());
    ctxMnu.ShowContextMenu(arrFI, this.PointToScreen(new Point(e.X, e.Y)));

History

• 12/10/07 - Created article
• 27/05/08 - Cleaned code a bit

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Great! Jose M. Menendez Poó 11:19 27 May '08   Good to know this trick. Thanks! Jm Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Great, but needs a bit tweaking ZeroXX 13:08 24 Mar '08   This is really great, looking forward to use it, only problem is that it can't handle every situation, like it states, files / folders need to be in the same location, and only one type of object can be passed onto it at a time. Keep up the good work. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Re: Great, but needs a bit tweaking seguso 8:48 20 Aug '09   Does someone know how to handle the first limitation (that the files need to be in the same folder) ? Thanks Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink Short and Sweet The_Mega_ZZTer 17:39 10 Dec '07   I've been looking for articles relating to shell folder things like this, and this is part of what I'm looking for. Very simple implementation and execution that covers what I would need it to do nicely. I was going to use a more thorough source code sample for my research into mimicking a Vista Explorer-esque interface in .NET, but your code should be a nice and simple alternative for me to look at as well! Thanks! I was disappointed when I saw you haven't written any other articles. I'll be sure to check them out when you do. Sign In·View Thread·PermaLink

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