{"id":3173,"date":"2005-05-30T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-30T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2005\/05\/30\/shell-extensions-for-net-assemblies-version-1-3-1976\/"},"modified":"2018-09-06T06:02:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T06:02:43","slug":"shell-extensions-for-net-assemblies-version-1-3-1976","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/shell-extensions-for-net-assemblies-version-1-3-1976\/","title":{"rendered":"Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies, Version 1.3.1976"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I released version 1.3.1976 of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.codeproject.com\/tools\/asmshell.asp\">Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies<\/a>. This version adds support for Windows Me and fixes a few bugs to provide column handlers and overlay icons for Windows Me, Windows 2000, and newer.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Overlay Icons and Column Providers\" src=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Among the fixes was a crashing bug that occurred because of an access violation exception when sorting by the public key token column in Windows Explorer. Because <font face=\"Courier New\">IAssemblyInfo::IsAssembly<\/font> may return <font face=\"Courier New\">S_FALSE<\/font> the <font face=\"Courier New\">SUCCEEDED<\/font> macro is hardly sufficient. A null <font face=\"Courier New\">BSTR<\/font> was be assigned to <font face=\"Courier New\">VARIANT::bstrVal<\/font> when <font face=\"Courier New\">VARIANT::vt<\/font> was set to <font face=\"Courier New\">VT_BSTR<\/font>. Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/windows\/virtualpc\/\">Virtual PC 2004<\/a>, base images of Windows Me and XP with Undo Disks enabled, and the native remote debugger <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/vsdebug\/html\/vxoriRemoteDebuggingSetup.asp\">installed<\/a> on each it wasn&#8217;t hard finding the root cause of the problem.<\/p>\n<p>To support Windows Me &mdash; the only 9x platform to support <font face=\"Courier New\"><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/shellcc\/platform\/shell\/reference\/ifaces\/ishelliconoverlayidentifier\/ishelliconoverlayidentifier.asp\">IShellIconOverlayIdentifier<\/a><\/font> and <font face=\"Courier New\"><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/library\/en-us\/shellcc\/platform\/shell\/reference\/ifaces\/icolumnprovider\/icolumnprovider.asp\">IColumnProvider<\/a><\/font> shell interfaces &mdash; simple string conversions were necessary since both implementations expect wide characters.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you find these useful. I like to get a quick glance at what&#8217;s native and what&#8217;s managed these days and this is certainly a lot faster than seeing what will open in <em>ildasm.exe<\/em>.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I released version 1.3.1976 of my Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies. This version adds support for Windows Me and fixes a few bugs to provide column handlers and overlay icons for Windows Me, Windows 2000, and newer. Among the fixes was a crashing bug that occurred because of an access violation exception when sorting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,29],"class_list":["post-3173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-development","tag-personal"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Today I released version 1.3.1976 of my Shell Extensions for .NET Assemblies. This version adds support for Windows Me and fixes a few bugs to provide column handlers and overlay icons for Windows Me, Windows 2000, and newer. Among the fixes was a crashing bug that occurred because of an access violation exception when sorting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}