I will be on vacation until mid-December, so it is unlikely that I will make any more posts until then, or even maybe January. -Ben Karas

Coding to the Windows SDK Reading properties #7 - Summary Writing properties #1 - Simple beginnings Writing properties #2 - Filetype support? Writing properties #3 - Which properties are writable? Writing properties #4 - Which properties are writable...

Today started out nice. But midday it started raining heavily and the wind trashed around a lot. Our building had several brown-outs and reset our computers. Seeing how windy it was, I checked online for any potential bridge closures. Fortunately, none...

There's one last topic I want to touch on before I close this series: Canonical values. So far I've talked about how to determine when the property itself is writable. But once you decide to write a property, how do you figure out what type the value...

Have you ever felt this before? It's the day after you send your product to manufacturing . You step back, look at the big picture, and start to see minor flaws. A dread sinks in when you realize you just blogged about it too! That was Monday morning...

[Edit: 2006/11/13 - My original post got this topic entirely backwards. I've fixed the title and will provide details about this tomorrow. ] -Ben Karas

You'll recall that there are multiple layers in the property system . In particular, the GPS_DEFAULT property system stack for files in the filesystem namespace looks like this: [ Application using GPS_DEFAULT ] [ Coercion Layer ] [ Shell Item Layer...

In explorer, the bottom portion of an explorer window changed names late in the development cycle of Windows Vista. It was called the "preview pane" for the longest time. The old name snuck into our property naming and our APIs. Later, the name was...

So if a property handler doesn't enumerate which properties it supports writing , then how does the explorer pick which properties to show? Well, the shell namespace extension containing the item specifies the list of properties it wants to show in a...

I'm going to make a first stab at printing out a list of properties that are writable for a given file. I'll spoil the fun and let you know that my attempt today will not fully succeed. I'll explain later. For now, let's see some code! You'll recall...

I'm really sorry to let this blog go dark. I've been moving apartments and have been remiss in writing entries (or even an explanation!!). I'll get back to regular postings next week.