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Wouldn't the Recycle Bin sample program have been simpler without COM?

December 20, 2013 Dec 20, 2013 12/20/13

Raymond Chen

Steve Wolf suggests that the sample program would have been much simpler had the shell extension model been a flat Win32 interface. Okay, let's try it. Since this is an extension model, each extension needs to specify the callbacks for each namespace operation. Perhaps it could have been done like this: This would be the function that...