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TIMOTHY_MANGAN
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Mar 01, 2021
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ShellExtension Context Menu issue with "additional settings"

When a programmer implements a shell extension context menu, they may want to have additional registry based settings for the extension to use.  A logical place to store those settings is with the CO...
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    Aditi_Narvekar
    Feb 09, 2022

    TIMOTHY_MANGAN Thank you for your question. Are you still looking for an answer to this question?

     

    Notepad++ uses the legacy IContextMenu interface to do that, but your manifest was using windows.fileExplorerContextMenus which is for the IExplorerCommand interface. We only added support for IContextMenu interface in a later version. In the manifest you should use windows.fileExplorerClassicContextMenuHandler

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Feb 09, 2022

TIMOTHY_MANGAN Thank you for your question. Are you still looking for an answer to this question?

 

Notepad++ uses the legacy IContextMenu interface to do that, but your manifest was using windows.fileExplorerContextMenus which is for the IExplorerCommand interface. We only added support for IContextMenu interface in a later version. In the manifest you should use windows.fileExplorerClassicContextMenuHandler

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