Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extensions

Commented Issue: search

jerryjoyce — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:28:35 GMT

needs search functionality, so it ties in with the search box and UI of Vista
Comments: ** Comment from web user: jerryjoyce **

It does tie in to the indexing functionality of Vista.

Created Issue: search

eidylon — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:10:13 GMT

needs search functionality, so it ties in with the search box and UI of Vista

NEW POST: Location of the Registry Icon

vprimachenko — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:31:21 GMT

Is it possible to locate the icon under "Computer" instead of "Desktop"? It is possible to move the icon manually?

NEW POST: Vista Sync Handler and IShellItem2

pete0815 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 11:47:41 GMT

Hi
I'm using the the Sync Handler to synchronize our company applications. For this I implemented the ISyncMgrHandler Interface but now I would like to extend the application with the conflict store. Every conflict during a synchronization is stored in a db and is displayed in the sonfict store. When a user would like to resolve the conflict i have to pass a IShellItem2 in the Strucuture CONFIRMCONFLICTITEM which in my case i have no clue if i should implement this interface in a class or if there is a way that i retrieve a IShellItem by calling the methode SHCreateItemFromIDList.

Do I have to register a shell item so that i can use the methode call? If so do i have still to implement the Interface IShellItem2 or can i link a class with this shell item that is wrapped in a IShellItem2 Object? Or is there only the hard way and implement my own class with the interface?

Please keep in mind that this is the first time i get in touche with this Interface and any information would help me.

Best regards,
pete

NEW POST: Windows Vista x64

juraj — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:38:59 GMT

For those who intend to get it working under x64 I discovered two issues which must be fixed
1) The manifest is composed to use the 32-bit version of comctl32.dll. You must either change the processorArchitecture attribute to "amd64" or you may use the preprocessor pragmas to use the right version of the DLL, like this

#if defined _M_IX86
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='x86' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_IA64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='ia64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#elif defined _M_X64
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='amd64' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#else
#pragma comment(linker,"/manifestdependency:\"type='win32' name='Microsoft.Windows.Common-Controls' version='6.0.0.0' processorArchitecture='*' publicKeyToken='6595b64144ccf1df' language='*'\"")
#endif

2) In the XMLDocument::Load method, there's a small pointer compatibility problem, causing passing a pointer to a 64bit value where a pointer to a 32bit value is expected. All you need to do is change the type of the local variabla "cch" from size_t to DWORD.

That's it. May be there are some other 64/32bit pointer compatibility issues, but I've not been confronted with them yet.

NEW POST: Windows Vista x64

JamesFinnigan — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:48 GMT

I don't believe we tested it for 64-bit, but it might work. It would need to be recompiled for 64-bit, though.

NEW POST: Windows Vista x64

snaky — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 13:15:43 GMT

Does it work under Windows Vista x64? I've installed it but an icon of the extension didn't show up.

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COMMENTED ISSUE: Our name stinks...

eidylon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 19:41:29 GMT

Our name looks like it was picked by the Windows Live sentence naming committee. How about a short name and a subtitle?

Proposals:
RegSearch - Registry Viewer and Indexer for Windows Vista
RegNamespace - (as above)
...?
Comments: ** Comment from web user: eidylon **

I like the RegNamespace one, though i think that should just be for the assembly or something; but use the full "Registry Namespace" for the human readable name/titles;

CREATED ISSUE: "Export" ability

eidylon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:13:14 GMT

Great item! love it. :)

The only other thing i could really say would be a big help besides the ability to create new (as per other post) would be the ability to right click a key/value and "Export..." to a standard .reg file.

COMMENTED FEATURE: Implement more context menu verbs

eidylon — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 18:10:21 GMT

Add support for the following context menu verbs:

For keys:
New Key
New Value (of various types)
Add to favorites

For keys and values:
Rename
Delete
Cut/Copy/Paste
Properties?

This might need to be broken down into several work items.
Comments: ** Comment from web user: eidylon **

absolutely i agree, that being able to add new keys/values is very important to make this a fully usable piece of software.

NEW POST: Windows Vista Sync Center Style Control Panel Extension

JamesFinnigan — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:37:20 GMT

We weren't sure exactly what you were trying to do - here's a couple guesses and the answers that go with them.

If you want to write an in-frame Control Panel with the same look and feel as windows. Since the display technology is not public, you can't do this using the display technology we're using. You can make a shell namespace extension which looks like our CPLs, but you'll have to draw the contents on your own, with the display technology of your choice (except that managed code is not yet a good choice for shell extensions). Here are some design guidelines: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/Aa511272.aspx

If you want to write a Sync handler. The interface is ISyncMgrHandler, and there should be a sample in the sdk.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
James

NEW POST: Windows Vista Sync Center Style Control Panel Extension

sajid — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 17:42:08 GMT

Hi Guys,

I'm developing a control panel application and I was wondering how do I go about developing a Vista Style Sync Center control panel.

I've already CPlApplet based panel so that is not an issue and I'm pretty sure I can register a Tasks.xml file for common task.

The sync center is unique in that it opens up in place and is navigated like pages.

I could'nt find any reference or documentation for doing something like it. Although I did get to Shell namespace extensions. Is Sync center a regular namespace extension? or is this new kind of extension supported on Vista, Would be great if I could get some sample code.

regards

Sajid

COMMENTED FEATURE: Implement more context menu verbs

AR — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:33:01 GMT

This would be the #1 feature improvement by far.

I would consider the ability to add Keys and Values most important, followed by cut/copy/paste functionality. The other options would be nice, but don't constitute basic functionality really needed to work with the registry.

Rename/Delete functionality seems to have been implemented already.

COMMENTED ISSUE: No way to restore removed desktop icon

AR — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:21:48 GMT

Hi AR. Deleting the icon doesn't delete the registration - it ADDs a key modifying the SFGAO flags. We need to add the removal of this key to the MSI so that uninstall/reinstall can get it back, as well as a remove message telling folks the needed steps to get it back.

Run this command to get it back.

reg delete HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{E48ABDCD-0DE7-4C5A-91EB-13D6E81506F0} /f

Thanks,
James
Comments: ** Comment from web user: AR **

I see that the install option regarding "hiding" does control whether it shows on the Desktop or not without effecting it's appearance in explorer windows... so I partly take back my suggestion to have this option! Only bonuses would be if it were clearer in the install that that is what the option did, and an interface to configure this behavior. If it showed up with other system icons in the "Change Desktop icons" dialog (and was documented to be there), that would be great!

COMMENTED ISSUE: No way to restore removed desktop icon

JamesFinnigan — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:16:30 GMT

Hi AR. Deleting the icon doesn't delete the registration - it ADDs a key modifying the SFGAO flags. We need to add the removal of this key to the MSI so that uninstall/reinstall can get it back, as well as a remove message telling folks the needed steps to get it back.

Run this command to get it back.

reg delete /f HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{E48ABDCD-0DE7-4C5A-91EB-13D6E81506F0}

Thanks,
James
Comments: ** Comment from web user: JamesFinnigan **

I'm not sure about the repair option. I generally don't love it when repair chucks a bunch of my personalization. This is still probably a reasonable choice for repairing, though.

sorry about the typo.

I agree that would be nice - I'll look into what it takes to appear in that list.

COMMENTED ISSUE: No way to restore removed desktop icon

AR — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:08:15 GMT

Hi AR. Deleting the icon doesn't delete the registration - it ADDs a key modifying the SFGAO flags. We need to add the removal of this key to the MSI so that uninstall/reinstall can get it back, as well as a remove message telling folks the needed steps to get it back.

Run this command to get it back.

reg delete /f HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{E48ABDCD-0DE7-4C5A-91EB-13D6E81506F0}

Thanks,
James
Comments: ** Comment from web user: AR **

OH, and when you add this to the setup, it would be good for the "Repair" option of course to remove this key, too.

For anyone who had the same problem and is reading this, the "/f" in the command line James supplied needs to go at the end for it to succeed.

COMMENTED ISSUE: No way to restore removed desktop icon

AR — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 00:03:57 GMT

Hi AR. Deleting the icon doesn't delete the registration - it ADDs a key modifying the SFGAO flags. We need to add the removal of this key to the MSI so that uninstall/reinstall can get it back, as well as a remove message telling folks the needed steps to get it back.

Run this command to get it back.

reg delete /f HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{E48ABDCD-0DE7-4C5A-91EB-13D6E81506F0}

Thanks,
James
Comments: ** Comment from web user: AR **

Thanks James.

It would be nice if there was a way to hide the icon from actual Desktop, so it would only show up in Explorer (various system Desktop icons do this -- by default Computer, Network and Control Panel).

Take care,
Asa

NEW POST: Registry not showing up in Explorer

AR — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 23:56:35 GMT

Thanks for that.

Yep, that did it!

Minor point for the record, in case others run into the same problem:

The /f in the command line needs to go at the end, or it will fail with "key not found":

reg delete HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\CLSID\{E48ABDCD-0DE7-4C5A-91EB-13D6E81506F0} /f

NEW POST: Registry not showing up in Explorer

JamesFinnigan — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:34:13 GMT

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