How do you show the Windows Explorer context menu from a C# application?

Question

I have a file listing in my application and I would like to allow people to right-click on an item and show the Windows Explorer context menu. I\'m assuming I would need to

Answer 1

I found a great Code Project article that encapsulates everything very nicely into one class!

Explorer Shell Context Menu

It's as easy as the following code snippet:

// Sample code

ShellContextMenu ctxMnu = new ShellContextMenu();
FileInfo[] arrFI = new FileInfo[1];
arrFI[0] = new FileInfo(this.treeMain.SelectedNode.Tag.ToString());
ctxMnu.ShowContextMenu(arrFI, this.PointToScreen(new Point(e.X, e.Y)));

The only irksome thing is that it takes either an array of FileInfo[] or an array of DirectoryInfo[] although it was VERY easy to modify the source slightly so that it would take an array of FileSystemInfo[]