Vista - Scripting HelpFile with Shell.Applicationl Object ?

Dear VBScript experts,

I write a lot of vbscript and I use a lot SCRIPT56.CHM, a helpfile which i
found on Internet somewhere which is VERY useful (objects, methods, ...)

In that file there is nothing on the Shell.Application object, which for
example offers Namespace and GetDetailsOf methods

Is there a helpfile for this object ?

Thank you

Jean-Marie

Hi Jean-Marie

Here is a nice clean example of a use of shell.application and
GetDetailsOf -
http://blogs.msdn.com/rahulso/archiv...ent-boxes.aspx

Here is API documentation for GetDetailsOf (with VBScript example) -
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...70(VS.85).aspx

Hopefully these will help you.

Best Regards,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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"jm.almeras" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Microsoft's online documentation is often quite good, but is not good on the
subject of Shell.Application. This newsgroup,
microsoft.public.scripting.vbscript, contains a lot of good info. One of
the best tools for getting info from a newsgroup is Groups.Google.Com.

Try this link for help with GetDetailsOf:
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=ge...=100&scoring=d

-Paul Randall

"jm.almeras" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In that file there is nothing on the Shell.Application object, which forThe only thing, as far as I know, is MSDN.
If you have access to that look up "Shell Object".
MSDN online is theoretically usable, but you
have to find things through Google and then
Microsoft has spread it out into extra, unnecessary
pages with numeropus broken links. So if you can
assemble all of the help pages at all, it would
certainly be a lot of work.

Shell.App. is basically Explorer's functionality
for folders. While it has some useful functions,
there's not a heck of a lot in it. It's not a good idea
to use it for filesystem ops, for instance, because
Shell.App is concerned with *display* of files/folders.
If you enumerate files in a folder using Shell.App
you'll find that some files are not included, and it
varies by system. Other functions, like using the
"verbs", also vary by system and are rarely if ever
relevant for scripting. Actually, I think it's safe to say
that everything in Shell.App varies by system because
of broken compatibility, both incidental and deliberate.
Again, that's mainly because Shell.App is a really GUI set
of functions, not a file system set of functions.

I have basically the information i was looking for
Thank you
Have a nice day

No problem, glad to help anytime.

Best Regards,
Jon

www.insidetheregistry.com

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