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Friday, September 07, 2007 9:42 PM

The Shell Extensions Approved list is *not* a complete list of shell extensions on the system

I've noticed that a number of different programs just look at the Approved list of shell extensions [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved] and figure that all shell extensions will be in that list. It's
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Thursday, September 06, 2007 9:00 AM

Supplemental Registrations (aka. Context Menu Handers (etc) - where are they loaded from...)

I've been thinking about the registration problem where you want to add a context menu (much of this applies to static verbs as well) to a file type (we'll say .ogg). You don't want the default verb, you just want to add some verbs. Because you don't
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Friday, August 10, 2007 6:02 PM

Installing shell extensions - please complain here

So... I've been looking more closely at Wix and I think I'm going to build some custom actions to do a really good job installing shell extensions. Which ones do you find most problematic? I realize this is a bit of a change of pace for the blog, so I'll
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Friday, February 16, 2007 1:07 PM

RegNamespace sample up on codeplex

Scott, Jerry, Thayn and I have whipped up a sample of indexing the registry, as well as a shell folder (namespace extension) for viewing it. It's great to be able to search the registry via the index and it's great sample of how to create a shellfolder,
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Wednesday, January 10, 2007 2:03 PM

WMI Folder - codeplex project

Well, I've put the WMI folder code up on codeplex . Please remember that this code is very much pre-alpha. I think that this will be a good way to share the code, allow others to contribute, etc. If it works well, then I will probably create codeplex
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Friday, December 01, 2006 3:44 AM

Getting a Path from an IDList

Not much to this - but I notice searches for this coming to my blog, so I might as well provide the answer. Use SHGetPathFromIDList - as long as the pidl is part of the file system, this will succeed. If you don't need a file system path, you can pass
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Monday, November 06, 2006 9:24 PM

WMI Shell Folder GetDisplayNameOf - untangling the flags

So I have a bit of a beef with GetDisplayNameOf - I don't like the flags. I understand that when it was created, the flexibility of flags made a ton of sense. It wasn't well understood what potentially wildly different uses might be needed, and flags
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