Microsoft KB Archive/246288

= BUG: Error in Declaration of SHFileOperation from API Text Viewer =

Article ID: 246288

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 5.0 Learning Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Learning Edition

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This article was previously published under Q246288



SYMPTOMS
When you use the API Text Viewer to get the declaration for the API SHFileOperation function, the following Declare statement is produced: Public Declare Function SHFileOperation Lib "shell32.dll" Alias " SHFileOperationA" (lpFileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT) As Long Note that the Declare statement in the code has an embedded space character before SHFileOperationA. If you use this API in your Visual Basic code, you receive the following error message when you run your application:

Run-time error '453':

Can't find DLL entry point SHFileOperationA in shell32.dll

Note that the extra space is also present in the error message text.



RESOLUTION
The correct Declare statement is: Public Declare Function SHFileOperation Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHFileOperationA" (lpFileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT) As Long



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Keywords: kbbug kbshellgrp kbapi kbpending KB246288

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