Platform SDK Shell, Property sheet for virtual items

Hi all,

I am developing a shell folder NSE with multiple levels of virtual
folders. How do I show a property sheet for virtual items?

I have tried doing a ShellExecuteEx with a "properties" verb for a
fully qualified PIDL of my nested virtual item. I have also supplied a
class name which registered a property page handler in a similar
fashion as a "Folder" class. This all had no effect. I got an error
message box and ERROR_NO_ASSOCIATION in return.

Is this possible at all or do I have to show my own custom property
sheet? I have Googled up and down and found nothing, but if I am not
mistaken, IE's History folder seems to do this nicely.

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Alex

IE's History folder shows a custom property sheet. You will need to do the same.

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Jim Barry, MVP for Windows SDK

Thanks! I thought I was doing something wrong. It turns out it is not
possible after all.

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Alex

Hi Alex,

You can copy\paste some om my sample code I uploaded to codeproject
(msf090.zip). It shows how to implement a property sheet\page for an
item in a NSE. (and it shows how to enable XP style, which IE history
sheet\page doesn't do)

Victor

Thanks Victor,

If you uploaded it quite recently, I guess it needs some time to
appear. I have searched the site up and down and found nothing. Could
you please put it elsewhere at least temporarily? Thanks.

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Alex

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location on codeproject is http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/msf2.asp

location on my homepage is http://www.xs4all.nl/ ~vbaderks/msf.html

Version on homepage is newer

Unfortunately, your sample has proven that properties are left on the
NSE writer to handle. One cannot rely on a standard behavior, or at
least I have not yet found a way to. It turns out that even IE's
History folder as well as built-in browsing within ZIP files also show
a custom modal dialog box or a property sheet. I somehow thought that
calling ShellExecuteEx with a properly registered class would do the
trick...

Thanks Jim and Victor!

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Alex