Shell Extension Wizard (Freeware)

Building shell extensions for Windows 95+ and NT 4.0+ is straightforward but very tedious because of all the boilerplate code that's needed. I wrote an application wizard to create skeleton shell extensions.

The wizard runs with Microsoft Visual C++ version 5.0 and can generate many types of shell extension (but not namespace extensions, sorry).

This is freeware. I'm providing it strictly "as-is" with no warranties of any kind. Sorry, but I can't provide any help if it doesn't work for you or the explanations in the generated README.TXT aren't sufficient to explain the customization you need to do. But you can e-mail me if you have suggestions for improvement. (Bear in mind I might not be able to answer the e-mail, though.)

Click here to download Shell Extension Wizard

You'll download XWIZ5.ZIP, which is about 32KB. It contains XWIZ5.AWX, which belongs in the directory \Program Files\DevStudio\SharedIDE\Template or wherever you installed the VC5 shared files.

Release Notes

  • 06/25/98 Eliminated "undefined symbol" error in SHELLX.CPP, line 845, when creating property page extension.
  • 09/01/98 Property page extensions for control panel applets no longer fail to load due to missing data object.
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