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This article demonstrates how you can display the default icon for a given file extension. This is particularly useful for making file sharing and FTP client software etc. I will show you how to take a file name and use it to find and draw its icon in a picture box..  -
Instead of using static paths like 'C:\WinNT\' in your programs and making it not work on Windows 9x OS's, use the power of the Win32 API to retrieve the important system paths! This article explores a few alternative methods of retrieving some of the core System folders in the win32 enviroment.. -
An extensive tutorial on using the ListView control, covering items, icons, headers, background images and more.. -
How to read and write binary files to save your arrays, variables etc to a file. -
Want to show an open/save dialog, let the user pick a colour, or show the print dialog? This tutorial shows you how, using the Common Dialog Control..
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This short snippet of code will return the parent directory of a directory input, or the directory of a filename input.. -
Demonstrates some VB code to register your application to automatically startup (in the registry).. -
This code will search a folder and all sub folders for a specified file or filter.. -
This code will allow you get the free disk space on a drive which is over 2 Gb in size.. -
How to load an M3U playlist for use in a media/music program..
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Enumerates files/folders in subfolders in the main or separate process (in asynchronous mode) using a lot of filter criteria. Among of them are: file and folder mask (you can use the wildcard characters); size (xDir supports files whose size is bigger than 2Gb); attributes including NTFS-specific attributes; date and time of creation, last access and modification; context search using the ASCII and/or Unicode character-encoding scheme.
A good replacement for the standard Dir function. -
The FolderView Control allows you to add a Windows-Explorer-like treeview to your application, showing all the files and folders of the Shell's Namespace exactly as Windows Explorer does. -
ShellView Pack includes the latest versions ( version 4.0 ) of FileView and FolderView ActiveX Controls. The controls allow developers to add complete Windows-Explorer like file browsing and file-selection capabilities in their own app. -
Add complete Windows-Explorer like file browsing and file-selection capabilities to your own app. The latest versions feature improved programming model, improved container-support and new properties, methods and events. -
The FileView Control allows you to add a Windows Explorer-like listview to your own application, showing all files and folders in the system exactly as Windows Explorer does.
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The VB and VBA users resource center. Contains Excel Workbook rebuilder, NetSend 3, Excel Sub Classer and API/VB/VBA code. Plus online discussion groups, code postings etc (all free). -
Create your own HTML-book from text with txt2html converter! Example also demonstrating how to use the GetOpenFileName API Function to open files.
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