Shell32

Description

Short story: Several techniques to "Shell and Wait" on Win32 systems.

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Published

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APIs Usage

This sample uses the following API calls:

Module Library Function
Shell32.bas kernel32





user32






CloseHandle
CreateProcess
GetExitCodeProcess
OpenProcess
Sleep
WaitForSingleObject
EnumWindows
FindWindow
GetParent
GetWindow
GetWindowText
GetWindowThreadProcessId
IsWindow
SendMessage

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Download Shell32.zip, 11Kb, Last Updated: Saturday, June 9, 2007