topic CIFS Shell Extensions in Alfresco Archive

CIFS Shell Extensions

kimmoilppola — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:29:42 GMT

Hi all,it's been some time I have posted anything on the forums but there's something I'd like to share with the community.I have recently developed a Windows client for the Alfresco CIFS that implements a context menu.[img]http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5186/menud.jpg[/img][img]http://img15.image

Re: CIFS Shell Extensions

gronfelt — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:52:01 GMT

This sounds really interesting, unfortunately I have no Windows development skills to contribute with, but I was wondering if there's some kind of project page where one could follow this project?

Re: CIFS Shell Extensions

benswitzer — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:35:20 GMT

Hi kimmoilppola.

I like the concept very much.

I haven't written unmanaged C code in what seems like a decade or two.

Why would you not want to keep it in C#? Seems to me that if you do, you could probably (with some re-factoring), make it fairly portable between Windows and Gnome. Obviously speed might be one issue, but I've seen and have used managed code in this manner before.

Ben

Re: CIFS Shell Extensions

kimmoilppola — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:52:10 GMT

Hi Ben,
you can find plenty of warnings about using managed code in shell extensions, here's one:
http://www.danielmoth.com/Blog/2006/12/managed-code-and-shell-dont.html

I'm setting up a forge project for this so you guys can pick up stuff that is already made - there's a nice list of todo's too, I'll put it in forge also. I'll let you know when the project is there.

Re: CIFS Shell Extensions

kimmoilppola — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:10:06 GMT

Ok,
all the code is now in https://forge.alfresco.com/svn/shellext and the project setup in forge http://forge.alfresco.com/projects/shellext/
I'll try to write down the todo list ASAP..