Propertysheet Handler Appwizard

Property Sheet Wizard is a Visual C++ 4.0 AppWizard (it won't work with 5.0 for some reason...I havn't tested it with 6.0 though) that creates a shell extension DLL that adds another property page to the Properties dialog, as shown on the left. (Right-click on a file and choose Properties to display this dialog). The DLL supports self registration, that is you can register it with regsvr32.

To use this AppWizard, first it needs to be copied to your \BIN\IDE directory (for example mine is C:\MSDEV\BIN\IDE), then it will be displayed in the New Project dialog in Visual C++. Choose it to create a new property sheet file handler.

There are no steps to the AppWizard, it just creates a generic shell extension DLL.

For some reason, the .DEF file does not get added, so you will need to add PROPSHEET.DEF to your project before compiling. Also make sure to use uuidgen to generate a new CLSID for the DLL in Properties.h when developing your own shell extensions.

By default, the AppWizard creates a handler for a folder. Change the parameter to AddSymbol in CProperties::CPropertiesFactory::UpdateRegistry() in Properties.cpp to the alais for the file type:

BOOL CProperties::CPropertiesFactory::UpdateRegistry(BOOL bRegister)
{
	CRegisterClass reg(m_clsid, "Bitmap.Properties");

	VERIFY(reg.AddSymbol("bmpfile") == 3);   // Zero based... really %4
	reg.AddEntry("CLSID\\%1\\InProcServer32", "Apartment", 
		"ThreadingModel");
	...
}