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Advanced Files & Folders - Introduction
Introduction
The basic VB functions that allow you to perform file and folder functions
are pretty useless. You can't send a file to the recycle bin, you can move a
folder, you can't do a lot of things. Windows API allows use to easily perform
all of these functions, and automatically displays a dialog box like in explorer
showing that the file is being copied. This is what we will be covering in this
article.
James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.
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Posted by unitled on 28 Jul 2006
Okay, I've used the 'List all files in a directory' code (with a few slight modifications) but whenever I reboot the computer, it stops finding the files that are there (other than that, it works fine...
Posted by HyperHacker on 26 Nov 2004
I think you use the FOF_SILENT flag. Been a while since I did it though.
Posted by HyperHacker on 26 Nov 2004
I think you use the FOF_SILENT flag. Been a while since I did it though. -
Posted by vor0nwe on 22 Sep 2004
Hi,
This code snippet works all right. What I’m looking for, however, is how to actually Undo a file operation? I can’t find any way to do that by code...
Thanks for all tips!
vor0nwe -
Posted by RobCrombie on 08 Aug 2004
Hi,
Couple of small bugs -
Change Dim sPath As String to strPath
Change "" to "\" in two lines -
sStartDir = Left$(sFile, InStrRev(sFile, ""))
'// just get filename
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