Receiving arguments from Windows Context menu

Question

I have done this before but for the life of me can't remember how to do this...

In my explorer context menu I added a new entry (go to regedit...go to HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT...bla bla bla)... Now when I click on my option I want to pass in the file path, file name, those kind of things to my application...and then use it there?

Answer 1

The default value of the .ext\shell\open\command key should contain the path to your .exe with the "%1" argument. Explorer substitutes that with the full path to the file. Which you can read in your .exe through the Main() method argument or Environment.GetCommandLineArgs().