Adding options for your application to the Windows Explorer context menu

Question

You know how when you right click on something in explorer there are options for your antivirus, ZIP archive manager, etc?

I was wondering how one might add options for their own application to the context menu. After a failed search for the answer on the internet, I came here.

Thanks for your help.

(I doubt it's relevant but I use C++ and Visual Studio 2010)

Answer 1

You need to create a shell extension handler, a context menu extension handler in your case. Covered well in this series of tutorials , part 1 talks about menus and how to install and debug these handlers.