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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 2: Using the IFileOperationProgressSink Interface

  In the first part of my posts for the IFileOperation interface , I wanted to give an overview of what it is used for and leave the real meat for later. Now it’s time for the fun stuff. In this post I want to dig into the use of the IFileOperationProgressSink Read More... Posted Monday, April 23, 2007 12:47 PM by chrdavis | 0 Comments Filed under: Coding, Developers, programming, Vista, Windows Vista, shell

• 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