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Access to Network Neighborhood

I want to access Network Neighborhood (Microsoft Networking) and register (in a file) all available servers together with the folder/ files they are sharing. I DON'T want to use TOpenDialog.

Can you help me?

;-) Edwin

icampbe1

If the shell (explorer) can do it then so must I.. Right? I believe that the net neighborhood is COM Object (Like a lot of other objects use by the shell). What you need to do, is find out what methods are surfaced through the Object's interface and made available to you. It's a lot like OLE Automation. I'm not sure where to get the interface definition for the object though, maybe on the Microsoft SDK, its a good place to start. (Funny isn't it... Microsoft develop the whole COM technology to accomplish exactly what you want to do, and then make it hard for you to do it.!!)

Ian C.

ewdrost

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Ian,

sorry I had to give you a bad grade, but this was the part I figured out myself.

I thought of 2 options:
1. Create a shell link (that's what you suggested)
2. Use Microsoft DLL's (look in SDK)

Unfortunately I don't have the SDK (I'm a student)so that won't help me either.

Thanx anyway....Edwin

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ewdrost

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This was just what I've been looking for, unfortunately I'm a little busy right now because I have to study.

But I will use this routines in the project I have in mind.

Thanks (1000 times), Edwin
(E.W.Drost@Student.UTwente.Nl)