Show File Properties Dialog for a Specified File

Category:

Files and Directories

Type:

Snippets

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Author:

Anonymous

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 5

More information:

The function returns true upon success and false if it fails. It will display the file properties dialog for the file that it is passed.

Instructions: Copy the declarations and code below and paste directly into your VB project.

Declarations:
' put this in a module ' if you want to put in a form or class module ' change all "public" to "private" Public Type SHELLEXECUTEINFO cbSize As Long fMask As Long hwnd As Long lpVerb As String lpFile As String lpParameters As String lpDirectory As String nShow As Long hInstApp As Long lpIDList As Long lpClass As String hkeyClass As Long dwHotKey As Long hIcon As Long hProcess As Long End Type Public Declare Function ShellExecuteEx Lib "shell32" (SEI As _ SHELLEXECUTEINFO) As Long

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