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Context Menu in MSIX packaged application.
Hi Team, I have packaged an application using the MSIX packaging tool and after installing/publishing the application i found out that the application lacks context menu. Is this feature still no...
- Yes, in VLC it works because you have for each file association a registered .exe that it points to. For example you point .mp3s to open up with vlc.exe.
But in cases like notepad++, winzip,etc, you have a shell extension which is not placed on a specific file association and it points to a .dll file.
Also, in MSIX, the context menu is not placed with the captured registry. Context menu is added inside the AppManifest.xml file.
Bogdan Mitrache I can see the context menu when i re-packaged VLC media player and
Bogdan Mitrache wrote:Some more details on https://www.advancedinstaller.com/msix-context-menu.html, from our experiments.
Bogdan Mitrache wrote:Some more details on https://www.advancedinstaller.com/msix-context-menu.html, from our experiments.
it captured all the file associations, same thing was not achieved with 7Zip, Notepad++,WinZip.
Yes, in VLC it works because you have for each file association a registered .exe that it points to. For example you point .mp3s to open up with vlc.exe.
But in cases like notepad++, winzip,etc, you have a shell extension which is not placed on a specific file association and it points to a .dll file.
Also, in MSIX, the context menu is not placed with the captured registry. Context menu is added inside the AppManifest.xml file.
But in cases like notepad++, winzip,etc, you have a shell extension which is not placed on a specific file association and it points to a .dll file.
Also, in MSIX, the context menu is not placed with the captured registry. Context menu is added inside the AppManifest.xml file.