Shell extensions

[Arthur Roodenburg]

Hello,

I built property page shellextensions , based on the DependencyWalke r sample
from Microsoft.
On some machines these shellextensions do not work. I implemented it like
this (consider the registration code):
[Guid("CB262AEB-CD12-40f6-9712-F0956048B080"), ComVisible(true )]
public class ExtensionHandle r : IShellExtInit, IShellPropSheet Ext

{
//implementation of Addhandler, etc

//Registration

[System.Runtime. InteropServices .ComRegisterFun ctionAttribute( )]
static void RegisterServer( String str1)
{
RegistryKey root = Registry.LocalM achine;

RegistryKey rk;

// For WINNT set me as an approved shellex
rk =
root.OpenSubKey ("Software\\Mic rosoft\\Windows \\CurrentVersio n\\Shell
Extensions\\App roved", true);

rk.SetValue(gui d, "My Shell Extensions");

rk.Close();

root.Close();

root = Registry.Classe sRoot;

string subKey =
"dllfile\\Shell ex\\PropertyShe etHandlers\\MyS hellExtensions" ;


rk = root.CreateSubK ey(subKey);

rk.SetValue("", guid);

rk.Close();

root.Close();
}

I made an install program like this:

System.Runtime. InteropServices .RegistrationSe rvices regservice = new
System.Runtime. InteropServices .RegistrationSe rvices();

Assembly asm = Assembly.LoadFr om("XshellExten sions.dll");

regservice.Regi sterAssembly(as m, AssemblyRegistr ationFlags.SetC odeBase );

Which registers the assembly. I am also putting the assembly into the GAC.
My questions are: How do I exactly register the shellextensions correctly?
What is missing, and can I find any documentation about this topic?

Thanks in advance,
Arthur

[Mattias Sjögren]

Re: Shell extensions

Arthur,
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>On some machines these shellextensions do not work.[/color]

Can you be a bit more specific about what, exactly, doesn't work? Are
you sure the failure is related to registration?



Mattias

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[Arthur Roodenburg]

Re: Shell extensions

I think it has something to do with the registration, since AddPages is not
invoked. Strange thing is that on my development machine it actually works
fine (since I started with the sample, I think something is registered that
I forgot later on, but I couldn't find out what). On all other machines,
AddPages is not invoked.

"Mattias Sjögren" <mattias.dont.w ant.spam@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
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> Arthur,
>[color=green]
> >On some machines these shellextensions do not work.[/color]
>
> Can you be a bit more specific about what, exactly, doesn't work? Are
> you sure the failure is related to registration?
>
>
>
> Mattias
>
> --
> Mattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org
> http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/
> Please reply only to the newsgroup.[/color]