Dragging and Dropping Files in a Frame Window
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The frame window manages a relationship with File Explorer or File Manager.
By adding a few initializing calls in your override of the CWinApp member function InitInstance, as described in CWinApp: The Application Class, you can have your frame window indirectly open files dragged from File Explorer or File Manager and dropped in the frame window. See File Manager Drag and Drop.