Demo of Shell32 Com DLL as Alternative to System API Functions

Category:

System/API

Type:

Applications

Difficulty:

Beginning

Author:

Behrooz Sangani

Version Compatibility: Visual Basic 6

More information:

Shell32.dll supports a lot of functionality (showing the browse for folder dialog, tiling and cascading windows, running system properties, and more) that otherwise would involve API functions of varying complexity. All you need is dim SH as New Shell and you can can call these functions easily. This is a demo of some of the functions, if you have additional ideas, I'll be glad to know.

Instructions: Click the link below to download the code. Select 'Save' from the IE popup dialog. Once downloaded, open the .zip file from your local drive using WinZip or a comparable program to view the contents.

Download shell32.zip