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I've noticed that a number of different programs just look at the Approved list of shell extensions [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Approved] and figure that all shell extensions will be in that list.  It's not true, because lots of folks don't really care about that policy.  I don't know ...

I've been thinking about the registration problem where you want to add a context menu (much of this applies to static verbs as well) to a file type (we'll say .ogg).  You don't want the default verb, you just want to add some verbs.  Because you don't want the default, you shouldn't put your progid in the HKCR\.ogg default value, so you ...

So... I've been looking more closely at Wix and I think I'm going to build some custom actions to do a really good job installing shell extensions.  Which ones do you find most problematic?  I realize this is a bit of a change of pace for the blog, so I'll probably hit a few other forums, but please feel free to add comments/complaints ...

Scott, Jerry, Thayn and I have whipped up a sample of indexing the registry, as well as a shell folder (namespace extension) for viewing it.  It's great to be able to search the registry via the index and it's great sample of how to create a shellfolder, protocol handler, and even an IFilter.  So head on over to the codeplex site ...

Well, I've put the WMI folder code up on codeplex.  Please remember that this code is very much pre-alpha.  I think that this will be a good way to share the code, allow others to contribute, etc.  If it works well, then I will probably create codeplex projects for some of the other things that I'm putting together. If you're ...