Add item to Windows shell context menu to open your application

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In this post I'll show how to that for context menus for Folders using a Visual Studio Setup Project, so after installing the application, when you right click on a folder, you can see such menu and when you click the menu, folder path will be passed to your application as command-line argument:

To add an item to context menu of folder, the setup should do the following configurations in registry:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
    Directory
        shell
            OpenWithMyApp  → (Default): Text of the menu
                             Icon:      "Path to executable" 
                command    → (Default): "Path to executable" "%V"