Re: Microsoft and Trust Take 2

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What is IMAPI? An Outlook interface? And what's
wrong with VB access to Shell?

IMAPI is an interface used for burning CDs in windows XP. It's a com
interface but not the kind that VB6 likes so VB cannot call it directly.
The
same with the shell, there are a lot of com interfaces that VB cannot
call.
There are a lot of shell functions that VB can call (eg ShellExecute) but
these are not the com interfaces.

I see. Thanks. I'd never heard of IMAPI
before. I still don't get the Shell part, though.
VB needs typelibs, but .Net needs Interop
and "unsafe" code, as I understand it. I would
think that, just as with Java, the Shell is pretty
much the last thing that .Net should be used for.

My last project was an Explorer Bar/BHO
combination. It works fine, written in VB, has no
dependencies, is compatible with Win95 up, and
weighs in at about 2/3 MB for everything including
an uninstaller, help file, etc. As I understand it,
I could do something like that in .Net but it's not
native and it's not recommended because there's
a risk of two plugins being installed with different
..Net versions, so that one might malfunction.


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