Adding, Deleting and Viewing Recent Documents
Auto-File and URL Completion for Text Boxes and Combo Boxes
Creating and Modifying Shortcuts
Getting File Icons Using The Shell
Thumbnail Extraction Using the Shell
Associations Index
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Associating Applications with Any File or FolderApplications such as WinZip add new items to Explorer's File and context menus for all files and folders on the system. Although WinZip uses Shell Extensions to achieve this, it is much easier to do using verbs. This article demonstrates how to use the .NET Registry classes to add new shortcut verbs for all files and/or all folders. You may find the Touch utility provided in the demonstration is quite useful too! Last Updated: 5 April 2003 |