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Author Topic: This is probably somewhat outside of the scope of a coding snack -- though it wo  (Read 4530 times)

mouser

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This is probably somewhat outside of the scope of a coding snack -- though it would make a terrific NANY application.

The idea is to make a commandline utility that can invoke one of the right-click file/folder context menu shell extensions on a file/folder.

That is, there are some programs / shell menu extensions that can only be accessed interactively from a file explorer tool.  For example, right clicking on a file to upload an image to an online gallery, or selecting a file for a file comparison tool.

These shell extensions do expose their info via a dll in a predictable way to file explorers, so it should be possible to load them in a comandline utility and select one not by showing the user a menu but by using a commandline tool that specifies the target file and some pattern to match against the menu to select it.

Such a utility would let us batch execute such context menu extensions programatically, and invoke them from other programs.

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You just had to ask... so I deliver.



Just posting here to make sure someone else isn't going to reinvent the Wheel.