Article ID: 246288
Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003
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
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:
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