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Elevated VS disables drag'n'drop from Explorer

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znakeeye	Posted - Aug 11 2010 : 09:20:01 AM Running VS 2008 SP1 under Windows 7. Sometimes (especially when working with COM), it is necessary to run VS as administrator. Running an application elevated does however have nasty side effects. For instance, you cannot drag and drop items from unelevated processes. This is always true for Explorer.exe since it cannot (and should not) be run elevated. Hence, dragging files from Explorer to VS is impossible. This is a disaster! I'm wondering if VAX might be able to provide a hack for this. Please see this thread: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsuidevelopment/thread/2fa935cf-be57-4bcc-9b96-7ee5a6b2b7a5/ A VAX hack possible? Basically, to allow drag'n'drop from all processes, all you need to do is this (inside VS of course): ChangeWindowMessageFilter(WM_DROPFILES, MSGFLT_ADD); ChangeWindowMessageFilter(WM_COPYDATA, MSGFLT_ADD); ChangeWindowMessageFilter(0x0049, MSGFLT_ADD);
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feline	Posted - Jul 12 2012 : 4:44:10 PM Unfortunately no progress yet, this is still in our list of things to consider. Have you tried running an elevated file manager? Personally I use this file manager, instead of Windows Explorer: http://zabkat.com/index.htm and they do a free version. There are several very good replacement file manager programs out there that might help here.
znakeeye	Posted - Jul 12 2012 : 09:46:09 AM No news regarding this? :(
feline	Posted - Aug 13 2010 : 11:27:37 AM A very interesting idea, hopefully it really is this easy. I have put in a feature request for this: case=48656

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