Re: Virtual Folder Shell extension

From:

"Tom Serface" <tom.nospam@camaswood.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Wed, 14 May 2008 08:22:15 -0700

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In addition to what G wrote (Mike's articles are a great place to start) you
may also want to pick a copy of Dino Esposito's book:

http://www.bestwebbuys.com/Visual_C%252B%252B_Windows_Shell_Programming-ISBN_9781861001849.html?isrc=b-search

It's an older book, but still one of the definitive resources on shell
programming. You could also check his Blog page:

http://weblogs.asp.net/despos/search.aspx?q=shell+programming&o=Relevance

Tom

"harry" <arijit.bee@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:cc8bb14c-5cd4-48c2-a538-4a03b02571e7@c58g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...

Hi all

I have a library (Native Win32) that manipulates files present in
different drives/volumes. I would like to provide a layer of
abstraction to the user by showing a virtual folder containing this
set of files that I can manipulate(thru my library) and support all
kinds of other explorer like features (cut,copy, paste , drag and drop
etc.) on this set of files. Creation of subfolders does not need to be
supported with this extension.

I think that this should not be a very complex shell extension. Can
anyone tell me exactly the interfaces that I would need to support? I
specifically do not understand how I can add the copy paste feature
(copying from another folder and pasting it to my virtual folder which
should then call some functions inside my library; and vice versa).

Thanks