Assigning keyboard shortcut to get path of selected item in windows explorer

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Published on 2010-04-23T19:07:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/23 19:13 UTC
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I don't know if this is even possible, but how can I bind some key combination to a (C#)program, so that when that keyboard shortcut is pressed with some file selected in windows explorer, it calls specific function with path of that file as a parameter.

Or can I assign some keyboard shortcut so that windows explorer opens selected file in my program(that way I could pass the path to already running instance)

thanks

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