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Asked: 2026-05-14T06:17:15+00:00

I am writing a .NET 3.5 WPF application in C#. This application needs to

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I am writing a .NET 3.5 WPF application in C#. This application needs to be able to get the selected items out of Windows explorer when it is in the foreground.

I already have the code working that handles a global Windows hotkey and then checks to see if the foreground IntPtr is from explorer. If so, I am able to obtain the System.Diagnostics.Process object that maps to explorer.

At this point, I would like to obtain the list of selected items from explorer. Perhaps there is a Windows API function that I could pinvoke to do this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The best I could find was to write a shell extension to handle this case. Unfortunately much of this functionality is now depreciated / not recommended for current versions of .NET and Windows.

    I am taking a different route by finding items through the clipboard instead.

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