Introduction

Welcome to CBFS Shell, a suite of easy-to-use structs for extending Windows File Explorer. Define how users interact with files and folders, customize context menus, add informational columns and more. CBFS Shell modules run in Windows Explorer and in your application; they communicate with each other via an efficient RPC mechanism. CBFS Shell supports Windows 7 and later, including Windows 11, on x86, x64, and ARM64 processor architectures.

Go-specific notes

The Go Edition includes the source code written in Go and a C bridge to the native library that comes in the precompiled form. For the compiler to handle this source code, you need CGo to be functional. CGo is a pseudo-package used for interoperations between the Go code and C/C++ components and external code. If you are installing CBFS Shell on Windows, then as per Go Wiki, "... to use cgo on Windows, you'll also need to first install a gcc compiler (for instance, mingw-w64) and have gcc.exe (etc.) in your PATH environment variable before compiling with cgo will work.". One prominent option for a GCC compler for Windows is MSYS2, but you can also use the build of cygwin or mingw of your choice.

Included Components

ShellFolder	The ShellFolder class enables creating a virtual folder containing items in the Windows Shell.
ShellMenu	The ShellMenu class enables customizing Shell context menu items and commands.
ShellNotify	The ShellNotify class enables monitoring file system change notifications.
ShellOverlays	The ShellOverlays class enables adding overlay icons over any files and folders displayed by the Windows Shell.

Additional Information

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