I want to implement a wpf application that will listen
to an event that comes from the desktop from the Send To
shortcut. Such as
right click on the file and select send to app
, then get the file path.
How would that be developed?
I want to implement a wpf application that will listen
to an event that comes from the desktop from the Send To
shortcut. Such as
right click on the file and select send to app
, then get the file path.
How would that be developed?
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SendTo resolves the link in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder and passes the filename as a parameter to the proper executable. You need to make your program accept command parameters and then process them.
EDIT: I originally missed the mention of WPF. So you could process command line args like this.
In you App.xaml add an entry for Startup like this:
In your App.xaml.cs add the App_OnStartup like this and store the args into an accessible variable:
In your main window get the args and do something with it:
Then place a shortcut to your program in the %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo folder. When you right click on a file and SendTo your app, the filename will be the args that are passed into your app.