Thread: add to windows context menu?

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It looks like it's easier to find C# examples so you might need to convert some code. I recommend Instant VB.

Right, i found a project to convert to vb.net.

it adds a entry and lets you select what exe to run when click.

My question is, I need to capture the file it was right clicked on, so when my application runs it knows what file to work with.

is this difficult?

Most likely this info will be available in command line arguments. I don't know if registry path has to be modified in your case, often a %1 is appended.
In applications Startup event you can find this in e.CommandLine. It is also found in My.Application.CommandLineArgs or Environment.GetCommandLineArgs.

This is very confusing

If your Reg entry says "MyApp.exe %1" then, when the user clicks MyFile.txt then Windows executes the commandline "MyApp.exe MyFile.txt" and, in your app, Environment.GetCommandLineArgs returns the array {"MyApp.exe", "MyFile.txt"}. Easy.