Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET Framework 4 (C#, VB.NET) - Part 4: Context Menu Handler with Menu-item Bitmaps

In "Writing Windows Shell Extension with .NET Framework 4 (C#, VB.NET) - Part 1: Context Menu Handler", we introduced how to write Windows shell context menu handler using .NET 4:

Lots of developers have this follow-up question: how can I add bitmap icons to those context menu items? 

Here you are the directly working code samples from Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework!

Sample download: C#, VB.NET

Implementation Details

The menu items in the context menu were added in the implementation of IContextMenu.QueryContextMenu:

        public int QueryContextMenu(

            IntPtr hMenu,

            uint iMenu,

            uint idCmdFirst,

            uint idCmdLast,

            uint uFlags)

        {

            ......

            // Use either InsertMenu or InsertMenuItem to add menu items.

            MENUITEMINFO mii = new MENUITEMINFO();

            mii.cbSize = (uint)Marshal.SizeOf(mii);

            mii.fMask = MIIM.MIIM_STRING | MIIM.MIIM_FTYPE | MIIM.MIIM_ID | MIIM.MIIM_STATE;

            mii.wID = idCmdFirst + IDM_DISPLAY;

            mii.fType = MFT.MFT_STRING;

            mii.dwTypeData = this.menuText;

            mii.fState = MFS.MFS_ENABLED;

            if (!NativeMethods.InsertMenuItem(hMenu, iMenu, true, ref mii))

            {

                return Marshal.GetHRForLastWin32Error();

            }

            ......

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