How to make my VB program name to apear when user right clicks in the Explorer?

[programmer]

Hi folks and thanks for viewing my question.
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I have noticed that when I right-click on a file in the Explorer file browser, some programs that I have downloaded from the Internet appear. I would like to know how can I put my program over there, and when the user clicks on it, my program will be able to check the filename of the file that the user have clicked on.


thanks, I know that this is NOT a normal question :-)

[Vlatko]

I would also like to know this. I asked this question once but got no answers. I think you will have to do some low level stuff or maybe not?

[sebs]

I don't this one but i know that you can
put it in the send to, but i don't how this act:

Is it like when you drag and drop something on your form
or it's like a parameter, i never test it.

Maybe i should.................

[code-elf]

All the extra stuff you see when you right click in an explorer window is stored in the registry on two places (one for the right column, with the folders en one place for the left column with the folders and files). I don't know the exact locations, and I'm too lame to find it out now. But you can try and search on an entry that appears in your pop-up window.

http://www.onecomputerguy.com/

Go to the tips n tricks section, then to the registry section. It has it there I know. It also has a heck of a lot of other useful registry tips.

[D12Bit]

I think it'll help if you look at this previous thread:
http://forums.vb-world.net/showthrea...threadid=37698

This was about Right-Clicking on a .dll or .ocx to register them
and this will do the same thing, just instead of using
Regsvr.exe you can use the app that you like and the file
extension that you need.

And for putting all that inside an app you must use the API
calls to make modifications to the Registry

Saludos...