Hope this is a sane place to ask!
I'd been reading Michael Dunn's articles over at The Code Project ( and written a couple of simple shell extensions based on them. One added thumbnail functionality for a third party image format, another added some extra columns in detail view for said file.
I wrote both of these in VC++6 but am trying to avoid it now and focus on VC++7.1.
I've tried re-compiling them in VC++7.1 (with the latest platfrom SDK) but get met with a range of errors and depreciation warnings so I think its safe to assume re-doing them properly would be a good plan!
However, im having problems figuring out how one goes about creating a new shell extension with VC++7.1. I havent been able to find any tutorials or documentation or even simple examples I can use to get started.
Can anyone point me to any guides to shell extension writing for 7.1 or give me an outline on getting a template project set-up? As I said, this is for a thumbnail creation extension and one for adding columns.
And yes, Im a crappy coder and learn from tutorials.
I'd been reading Michael Dunn's articles over at The Code Project ( and written a couple of simple shell extensions based on them. One added thumbnail functionality for a third party image format, another added some extra columns in detail view for said file.
I wrote both of these in VC++6 but am trying to avoid it now and focus on VC++7.1.
I've tried re-compiling them in VC++7.1 (with the latest platfrom SDK) but get met with a range of errors and depreciation warnings so I think its safe to assume re-doing them properly would be a good plan!
However, im having problems figuring out how one goes about creating a new shell extension with VC++7.1. I havent been able to find any tutorials or documentation or even simple examples I can use to get started.
Can anyone point me to any guides to shell extension writing for 7.1 or give me an outline on getting a template project set-up? As I said, this is for a thumbnail creation extension and one for adding columns.
And yes, Im a crappy coder and learn from tutorials.
