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• File Extensions: Finding the default Icon

  by couling

  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..

• Getting System Folders Easily via API

  by Thushan Fernando

  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..

• ListView Control

  by James Crowley

  An extensive tutorial on using the ListView control, covering items, icons, headers, background images and more..

• Binary Files

  by James Crowley

  How to read and write binary files to save your arrays, variables etc to a file.

• Common Dialog Control

  by James Crowley

  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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• Return Parent Directory for Files and Folders

  by Evic

  This short snippet of code will return the parent directory of a directory input, or the directory of a filename input..

• Register Program to Start Up Automatically

  by -=D=-

  Demonstrates some VB code to register your application to automatically startup (in the registry)..

• File Searching

  by phracker76

  This code will search a folder and all sub folders for a specified file or filter..

• Get Free Disk Space On Large Drives

  by phracker76

  This code will allow you get the free disk space on a drive which is over 2 Gb in size..

• Load M3U playlist

  by Smile005

  How to load an M3U playlist for use in a media/music program..

• More File & Directory Sample Code...

Products

• xDir Library

  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.

• FolderView ActiveX Control 4.0

  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 4.0

  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.

• Shell MegaPack 4.0

  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.

• FileView ActiveX Control 4.0

  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.

• More File & Directory Products...

Web Sites

• Visual Basic Users

  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).

• Text to HTML Converter

  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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