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• Shell Namespace Extension: Enabling Deep Search

  Overview From my past posts about implementing your own Shell Namespace, there have been some great questions posted by readers. Many of these stem from the fact that the Namespace example is fairly simple in that it does not implement all of the behavior Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 3:50 PM by chrdavis | 1 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, programming, Vista, Windows Vista, Search and Organize, search, shell, namespace, extension

• Shell Namespace Extension: Adding Custom Command Module Items

  Overview In my earlier post , I showed how to create a Shell Namespace Extension using the default IShellView implementation (also known as DefView). One thing you might have noticed from the sample is that the Commands Module is void of even the default Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 05, 2007 1:43 AM by chrdavis | 18 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, programming, Vista, Windows Vista, shell, namespace

• IFileOperation – Part 1: Introduction

  Many developers who have used Shell APIs have had at one time or another used SHFileOperation in their code. SHFileOperation is used to perform copy, move, rename and delete operations on items in the file system. It is an entry point into the Shell’s Read More... Posted Monday, April 16, 2007 4:17 PM by chrdavis | 6 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, Developers, programming, Vista, shell

• Your File Is In Use… Demystified

  In past versions of Windows, when a user encountered a file that is in use by another process, he would be presented with an unfriendly dialog like this: What process is using this file? What should the user do? There is nothing actionable for the user Read More... Posted Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:39 PM by chrdavis | 9 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, Developers, programming, Vista, Windows Vista, shell

• Common Questions Concerning the SHFileOperation API: Part 2

  Part 2: The most common mistakes in using SHFileOperation For my second installment, I thought it would be helpful to point out the most common coding mistakes I've seen with SHFileOperation. 1. Always double-null terminate your paths This is the Read More... Posted Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:32 PM by chrdavis | 3 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, Developers, programming, API Vista Developers Coding

• Common Questions Concerning the SHFileOperation API: Part 1

  Over the years, I have seen many questions being asked on newsgroups and developer forums concerning the SHFileOperation API. This API allows developers to perform file operations such as Copy, Move, Rename and Delete as well as provide rich UI for confirmation, Read More... Posted Monday, September 11, 2006 2:53 AM by chrdavis | 3 Comments Filed under: API, Coding, Developers, programming