I have a file listing in my application and I would like to allow people to right-click on an item and show the Windows Explorer context menu. I'm assuming I would need to use the IContextMenu interface, but I'm not really sure where to start.
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I have written a library that might be able to help you. You could use the controls provided by the library, or if you don't want to do that, looking through the code may give you an answer.
You can find the library at: http://gong-shell.sourceforge.net/
Please let me know if this helped!
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This solution is apparently for .NET 2.0 only :( – Dec 28 '16 at 18:11
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There's a very good tutorial (albeit in C++) about hosting an IContextMenu on Raymond Chen's blog in 11 parts (in order):
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This is perfect. Not in C#, but it explained how to do it, and that's all I need. – Jon Tackabury Mar 10 '09 at 15:27
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I found a great Code Project article that encapsulates everything very nicely into one class!
It's as easy as the following code snippet:
// 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)));
The only irksome thing is that it takes either an array of FileInfo[] or an array of DirectoryInfo[] although it was VERY easy to modify the source slightly so that it would take an array of FileSystemInfo[]
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That library works fine most of the time, but under some circumstances it blows due to Delegates being released too early, and I can't seem to find where. – Janis F Jun 05 '14 at 09:37
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In case the CodeProject links permanently die: https://pastebin.com/bfjX7ysX Note that I had to change the `ShellHelper.HiWord` and `ShellHelper.LoWord` to `ulong` but other than that it worked out of the box on .NET 4.6.1 – test Aug 23 '22 at 23:26