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Asked: 2026-05-28T05:18:59+00:00

I am writing a little application that performs some simple actions on some specific

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I am writing a little application that performs some simple actions on some specific files, in C# at the moment but I wouldn’t mind changing.

Ideally, I would like to be able to add a contextual menu on right click in Windows XP/7 Explorer, nothing to do with ad hoc Forms. There, I’d like to add a couple of options in a tab of the name of my app. Also, I would like to build an .exe that installs my program on the user’s machine.

Do you have any ideas/links to suggest ? I’m chancing on dodgy pages while googling, not even getting close to what I want to achieve.

Thank you !

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  1. Editorial Team

    First of all you need Visual Studio to fulfill all your requirements

    1. To Create an installer you need to create Setup & deploy project.

    2. Then for Context menu & also I think you will use a notify Icon too for you context menu item. An easy to use tutorial is http://www.dotnetperls.com/contextmenustrip and also the MSDN library has lots n lots of documentation.
      There are some good tutorials and few of them that I found very helpful to beginners are
      Getting Started with Setup Projects, MSDN Getting Started with Windows Installers, MSDN ContextMenuStrip Class, MSDN Setup & Deploy Projects, NotifyIcon ContextStrip Menu Hope this helps! If you find my answer helpful please rate me 🙂

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