Ah, that just jarred something loose in my memory. There is a bug in XP and
you are within the main explorer process. You see the same problem if you
launch a new explorer process and try to activate the status via the UI.
Sorry bout that.
I wouldn't be surprised if the menus changed from release to release.
...
> Thanks Ken. I did drill through the shell namespace and I
> am able to operate on all the menu items that show in the
> right context menu except the Status. I can launch the
> properties Dialog, do enable/disable etc. However the same
> piece of code that applies the verb does not work for the
> Status dialog
> Code snippet:
> nVerbItemID = GetMenuItemID( hPopup, nVerbItemID );
> //nVerbItemID is 9 for properties and 5 for status
> CMINVOKECOMMANDINFO cmi;
> ZeroMemory(&cmi, sizeof(cmi));
> cmi.cbSize = sizeof(CMINVOKECOMMANDINFO);
> cmi.lpVerb = MAKEINTRESOURCE(nVerbItemID-1);
> cmi.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;
> hr = pcmLACContextMenu->InvokeCommand(&cmi);
> Also do the Menu IDs change from release to release?
> Thanks
> Suman
> >-----Original Message-----
> >There are no APIs for this. Conceivably you could drill
> through the shell
> >namespace and apply the verb, but the folder tends to
> change from release to
> >release.
> >--
> >Ken Wickes [MSFT]
> >This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
> >"Suman" <sumanson...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:0f4901c38d1a$23361980$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> If I want to see the status of a network connection - I
> go
> >> to Network connections folder and right click on a
> >> connection icon and click status to launch the Status
> >> dialog.
> >> Does anyone know how to do it programmatically using C++
> >> or is there a command line?
> >> Thanks
> >> Suman
> >.
