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ghawkes
ghawkes

Reputation: 603

Get selected items from explorer using C# .NET 3.5

I am writing a .NET 3.5 WPF application in C#. This application needs to be able to get the selected items out of Windows explorer when it is in the foreground.

I already have the code working that handles a global Windows hotkey and then checks to see if the foreground IntPtr is from explorer. If so, I am able to obtain the System.Diagnostics.Process object that maps to explorer.

At this point, I would like to obtain the list of selected items from explorer. Perhaps there is a Windows API function that I could pinvoke to do this?

Thank you,

Upvotes: 0

Views: 755

Answers (2)

Juha
Juha

Reputation: 672

You could use clipboard for that.

When hotkey gets pressed, emulate ctrl+c and get paths of the selected files from clipboard. (you could also backup clipboard and restore it afterwards so it doesn't mess that up if one has something important there)

Upvotes: 1

ghawkes
ghawkes

Reputation: 603

The best I could find was to write a shell extension to handle this case. Unfortunately much of this functionality is now depreciated / not recommended for current versions of .NET and Windows.

I am taking a different route by finding items through the clipboard instead.

Upvotes: 0

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