Writing Shell Extensions / Extending Explorer Context Menu - XP 64

Jeff Gaines

I am in the process of upgrading to XP 64. VS2008 is running fine but one
of my apps, which adds functionality to the Explorer context menu, just
won't work under XP 64.

Googling resulted in my finding an article saying that MSFT recommends
against writing shell extensions in managed code and does not consider
them a supported scenario.

So, can anybody point me to any articles relating to writing shell
extensions in non managed code specifically for XP 64? I am beginning to
think that XP 64 is a bit of a Cinderella OS, although the advent of Vista
has, at least, been responsible for the appearance of 64 bit drivers that
previously didn't exist!

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Jeff Gaines

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Jeff Gaines

On 28/04/2008 in message <no************ **@TK2MSFTNGHUB 02.phx.gbl>
Jialiang Ge [MSFT] wrote:

>First off, for you request of articles relating to writing shell extension
in non-managed code specifically for x64 Windows system, I'd suggest:

[snipped]

Many thanks Jialiang, I particularly liked the title "When I'm x64" which
is a bit close to the truth for me :-)

Lots of reading to do which will be interesting, looks like I need to
learn C++ as well which will keep my brain active.

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Jeff Gaines

Jun 27 '08 #2

Jialiang Ge [MSFT]

Hello Jeff,

As I said I would talk with some experienced shell extension developers
from the shell team to see if there is anything else we should pay special
attention to, a very famous shell developer inside Microsoft (He does not
want me to tell his name) confirmed that writing a 64-bit shell extension
is the same as writing a 32-bit shell extension. We are just doing it in
Win64. The rules are the same; there are no functionality differences.

If you have any other concerns or questions, feel free to let me know. You
are also welcome to post questions here if you encounter any problem when
writing the non-mananged shell extension in C++. We will be very happy to
help you.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge (ji****@online. microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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