Drag and drop between my program and explorer [modified]

Razvan Dimescu

Can you point me out in some directions of how to support drag and drop between my application and windows explorer? The only article that I found on this was the this one written by Michael Dunn, but it's implemented in C++ and it's not even working with Windows Vista. This article it's doing exactly what I need, but unfortunately it's not working under windows vista even though I'm running it with administrator rights

modified on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:33 AM

Eslam Afifi · modified on Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:33 AM

I hope this is what you're looking for. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/shell/Explorer_Drag_Drop.aspx

Eslam Afifi

Razvan Dimescu

Thank you Eslam! I found that article too but it only supports copy from the console while I am more interested in a mouse drop rather than ctrl c

Eslam Afifi

razvan_dme wrote:

but it only supports copy from the console

What console!!! :wtf: It's drag and drop.

Eslam Afifi

Razvan Dimescu

Sorry, it was a typo(I meant clipboard). The application you sent me works perfectly under windows xp, but under vista it's not working anymore

Eslam Afifi

Well, I haven't worked with Vista before so I'll leave it to the experts. Sorry I couldn't help.

Eslam Afifi

DaveyM69

What error(s) are you getting under Vista? I bet it's something to do with permissions - you may have to add an application manifest file and alter the requested execution level.

Dave