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After discovering on superuser that there is no current way to add syntax highlighting to the Windows 7 preview pane, I figured if someone else hasn't done it yet then I'll go ahead and do it myself.

Is there an API or SDK available for Windows 7 that exposes the preview pane in explorer to customization? If so, what is it and how do you think is the most elegant way to accomplish this? I would like it to read the syntax highlighting options from Visual Studio to get the users favorite colors and code theme settings.

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You must check the Preview Handler, you can download an example from here. The Preview Handler is used to display a file preview inside the Windows Explorer preview pane or other preview handler hosts.

You can check these links :

Bye.

RRUZ
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Love to know if you've followed through on this. I was just searching for this and coming up with nothing so far.

Sam Svenbjorgchristiensensen
I started it, but about midway through I lost everything on my little portable hard drive and never managed to find the time to recreate it. Eventually I'll get around to again and when I do I'm going to push it to bitbucket or github.
slf
Oh man that's lame. I've recently started using dropbox, and hard-linking my project folder into it so that it gets backed up online automatically every time I close my IDE. Works a treat. Best of luck man.
Sam Svenbjorgchristiensensen