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What is the shell's namespace?
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Shell file types, associations and verbs
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Special registry keys controlling the behaviour of shell folders
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What on earth is a PIDL?
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Count the number of "tokens" within a PIDL
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Convert a PIDL to a path and other similar tricks
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Cope with DLL hell, all these various shell versions
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What is a virtual folder?
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Get the location of various important or system folders
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Launch applications with ShellExecute and verbs
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Some less known yet useful standard verbs
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Launch an internet browser or send emails using ShellExecute
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Launch an application and wait for it to terminate
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Pitfalls in launching from background threads
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Read the contents of a filesystem folder using FindFirstFile et al.
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Huge file sizes: 64-bit integers explained
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Recursively read into a whole directory subtree
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Advantages of FindFirstFile over shell COM
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Wildcard (pattern) matching for filtering filenames
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Receiving notifications when the contents of some folder change
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Which notifications are triggered for certain kinds of events
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Coping with the problem of multiple notifications per event
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Monitor a complete subtree, even a whole drive, for changes
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Differences in notifications between win9x and NT
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Problems obtaining notification from network drives
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Parsing pathnames for PIDLs
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Parse relative MS/DOS paths that shell doesn't want to know
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Read the contents of a filesystem folder the COM way
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Manage COM objects and memory allocated for you by the shell
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I've never heard about UNICODE in my life
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Protect your address space from Mr. Buffalo Bill
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Excuse me Mr. COM, where is that creation date of mine?
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Interpreting the file information held in a PIDL
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Challenges in exploring namespace extensions
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Basic exploration of a virtual folder
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I asked for a display name but all I got was this STRRET thingy
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Tell the difference between a folder and a plain item the virtual way
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The twilight zone: semi-virtual folders like "Fonts"
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Customizing folders using that "desktop.ini" file
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Copy some files using SHFileOperation API
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Avoid headaches when working with double-null series of strings
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Things you need to know when using SHFileOperation
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Supply undo information which shell won't let you use
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Delete files directly or send them to the Recycle Bin
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Get rid of those annoying confirmation dialogs
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Connected HTML files — U wot?
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Of all things moniker and shell links
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Figure out whether a file is a shortcut or not
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Resolve a shortcut and get info for the linked target file
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Extend "file" management in virtual folders
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Obtain an icon for a file or folder
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Optimize icon extraction using SHGFI_USEFILEATTRIBUTES
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Obtain access to the system image list
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Extract icons within virtual folders
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COM interface alternatives to SHGetFileInfo
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Standard icon offsets in system image list
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Working with icon overlays for links and shared items
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Security measures in winNT cause problems with standard overlays
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Workaround for valid image lists, applicable to all win32 platforms
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Use Developer Studio to "nick" resources from other programs
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Take advantage of infotip improvements in windows 2000
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Show file comments and other properties in an infotip
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Thumbnail previews for images, HTML and Office documents
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Thumbnail extraction sample
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Asynchronous image extraction in threads
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How does explorer fill the context menu for each file type
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Static, extended and dynamic verbs
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Hard-coded commands vs. context menu extension handlers
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No less than 3 different context menu interface versions
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Obtain the highest possible IContextMenuxx pointer
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Fill in the menu & isolate shell command IDs to a convenient range
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Execute commands given either verbs or command IDs
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Execute the command selected from the menu
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Figure out the correct command to execute, given the menu item ID
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Handle the irregularities of "rename" command verbs
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Alternative ways of file management using shell context menu
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Complications surrounding the "Send To" submenu
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Complete context menu sample, mixing shell commands with your own
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Temporarily subclass your window providing access to the shell context menu handlers
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That context menu cowboy shot my stack in the head
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Put some text in the clipboard, the traditional way
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Clipboard standard and registered formats
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My clipboard is not responding, what's wrong?
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Read text from the clipboard, the traditional way
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The new generation OLE clipboard
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The same data stored in various formats in a single data object
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Enumerate all the formats contained in a data object
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On FORMATETC, the generalisation of clipboard format identifiers
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Read text from the clipboard, the OLE way
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On STGMEDIUM, the generalisation of global memory handles
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Various STGMEDIUM cleanup procedures
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Read text in an IStream instead of global memory
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Minimal implementation of IDataObject interface
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Create a pseudo-COM object to be used on the stack
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Set text in the clipboard using IDataObject and OLE API
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Proxy data objects used by the clipboard
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Typical shell data object clipboard formats
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Managing various formats in shell data objects
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Auxiliary formats fine-tuning the target file operation
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Data change notification support in shell objects
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Place shell data in the clipboard with minimum effort using IContextMenu
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Differentiate between cut and copy operations
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Figure out whether some edit-style menu command is available
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Read filesystem items placed in the clipboard (CF_HDROP)
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Proxy data objects make a mess out of supported formats
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Drag-drop fundamentals: copy & paste in one stroke
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Registering windows as potential drop targets
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Implement a source data object for free using GetUIObjectOf
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Add any auxiliary format to a shell data object
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Standard keyboard modifiers controlling the drop operation
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Outline of drag initiation actions for data sources
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Devise a simple IDropTarget interface for shell items
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Complete drop target dialog-based application
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Delegate drop target notifications to the shell
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Two possible avenues for drag-drop termination
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Handling data transfer scenarios: info you can do without
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Proxy objects strike back, even for drag-drop
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