wodShellMenu

What is wodShellMenu?

A small component that installs itself as a wodShellMenu handler  for your explorer, giving VB applications full control over the Explorer's user-defined menus. With wodShellMenu, you can add the context menu to any icon you see - to files, folders, My Computer, Network, Computers, Recycle Bin, even in the desktop background and in the folder background. You define which items are shown and when, quickly removing them, depending on where the user right-clicks. You can also add photos.

I've always wanted to add this little winy item to the My Computer context menu,

like "Shut Down Now." Ha! It's one of the examples here - you can do this with a few lines of code. Uh?! Did I say code? It will be more like children playing than the actual VB code. It's so easy.

Do you need to integrate your product with the desktop?

For example, do you create conversion software and want to change BMP to JPG in real time? No problem! You implement the code for this, wodShellMenu will provide the context menu so that when someone clicks on BMP, your application is called and you do the rest.

Why would you consider writing your own context menu handlers for explorer? Want to have problems with file blocking? With each update made in the context of the DLL file, is it necessary to restart the explorer? No way! Want to think about the communication between the explorer and your app? Different processes? Different topics? Exchanging content? Doh! Give me a break! You don't have to worry about things like that with wodShellMenu!

Although it is primarily developed for applications, many of you will find its use also as a simple utility. In a few seconds, you can make it behave as you want, add menus to specific items and handle them with ease - from the VB event!

Adding photos is easy

wodShellMenu has an internal database of about 70 photos, but you can also use external. It doesn't matter if it's a BMP, DLL or EXE file or any other resource on your computer, wodShellMenu will know how to load it and will be displayed next to the menu item. All you need is to be careful about the size - it's 13x13. Leave the rest in wodShellMenu.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768