by Vishal V. Kulkarni (6 Submissions)
Category: Windows API Call/Explanation
Compatability: VB 6.0
Difficulty: Unknown Difficulty
Originally Published: Fri 16th February 2001
Date Added: Mon 8th February 2021
Rating: 
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This application should be used in place of shelling a application. If we shell a program and its not present in that directory then we
API Declarations
'program and opens the file.
'This code can be freely distributed.
'Please mail your queries at [email protected]
'Need:
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'This application should be used in place of shelling a application.
'If we shell a program and its not present in that directory then we encounter
'errors .This code takes care to open the file in a default program
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpszOp As String, ByVal lpszFile As String, ByVal lpszParams As String, ByVal lpszDir As String, ByVal FsShowCmd As Long) As Long
Private Declare Function GetDesktopWindow Lib "user32" () As Long
Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
VBcoders
Dim Scr_hDC As Long
Scr_hDC = GetDesktopWindow()
lStartDoc = ShellExecute(Scr_hDC, "Open", sDocName, "", "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL)
End Function
Private Sub Form_Click()
Dim l As Long
l = lStartDoc("C:\bankfile.mdb") '---- put your filename here
' I hope you can alter the code as per your need.
End Sub
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