Call windows explorer “rotate clockwise” operation from a C# application

Question

Does anyone know how to find out what is actually being called here? I'd like to automate this with PowerShell or C#.

Answer 1

I don't know what's actually called by those context menu items, but you can invoke these verbs via the Shell.Application object:

$path = 'C:\path\to\your.jpg'

$folder = Split-Path -Parent $path
$file   = Split-Path -Leaf $path

$app = New-Object -COM 'Shell.Application'

$app.NameSpace($folder).ParseName($file).Verbs() |
  Where-Object { $_.Name -eq 'Rotate cloc&kwise' } |
  ForEach-Object { $_.DoIt() }