add to windows context menu?

[Johnson]

What i would like to do is have my application add a entry to the main windows context menu(for when i right click a picture) which will be called host image.

My question is what do i need to read up on to add a context menu entry

When the entry is clicked i want it to get the file it's clicked on location

Does this make some sort of sense to you?

 

[jmcilhinney]

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It looks like it's easier to find C# examples so you might need to convert some code. I recommend Instant VB.

 

[Johnson]

Right, i found a project to convert to vb.net.

it adds a entry and lets you select what exe to run when click.

My question is, I need to capture the file it was right clicked on, so when my application runs it knows what file to work with.

is this difficult?

 

[JohnH]

Most likely this info will be available in command line arguments. I don't know if registry path has to be modified in your case, often a %1 is appended.
In applications Startup event you can find this in e.CommandLine. It is also found in My.Application.CommandLineArgs or Environment.GetCommandLineArgs.

 

[Johnson]

This is very confusing

 

[jmcilhinney]

If your Reg entry says "MyApp.exe %1" then, when the user clicks MyFile.txt then Windows executes the commandline "MyApp.exe MyFile.txt" and, in your app, Environment.GetCommandLineArgs returns the array {"MyApp.exe", "MyFile.txt"}. Easy.