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Started by aayudh March 19, 2010 06:20 PM

3 comments, last by aayudh 14 years, 1 month ago

aayudh

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March 19, 2010 06:20 PM

Hi, can someone enlighten me as to how to write a plugin like a thumbnail viewer for windows explorer ?? Thanks very much in advance.

benryves

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March 20, 2010 08:35 AM

To provide thumbnails for your own file types, you can use the IThumbnailProvider interface (supported in Windows Vista or above). For compatibility with older versions of Windows you can use IExtractImage instead.

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aayudh

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March 20, 2010 12:08 PM

thanks for the reply !!
Is there some SDK to start with ??

aayudh

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March 20, 2010 12:09 PM

ok..I like you :)

U gave the links as well for those !

thanks.

aayudh

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March 24, 2010 05:31 PM

can you also give me some info as to how i can register this dll so that when I click on myfile.myext i can display the image ?

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