error C2065: 'ShellExecute' : undeclared identifier?

[abba]

Can some explain why when I compile the following:

#include "stdafx.h"
#include "windows.h"
#include "string.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char szCurDir[MAX_PATH];
printf("Hello World!\n");
GetCurrentDirectory( MAX_PATH, szCurDir );
// ShellExecute(0,TEXT("open"), TEXT("test.txt"), NULL,szCurDir, 0);
ShellExecute(0,"open","test.txt",NULL,szCurDir,0);
return 0;
}

I get this error:

C:\cons\cons.cpp(16) : error C2065: 'ShellExecute' : undeclared identifier

[Jakob Bieling]

include shlwapi.h

you could have found this out easily yourself by searchig for ShellExecute in the MSDN

bye
jb

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[abba]

It is still doing it!
I also _did_ search the msdn, but aparently the shell api's
reside in the client sdk area, and these help files don't
have the header requirement info that other api's do?
"Jakob Bieling" <net...@gmx.net> wrote in message
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[John A. Grant]

<abba> wrote in message news:93a9l...@news2.newsguy.com...

> "Jakob Bieling" <net...@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:93a5p5$6tv$02$1...@news.t-online.com...
> > include shlwapi.h

> It is still doing it!

[...]
#include <shellapi.h>

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[Jussi Jumppanen]

abba wrote:
>
> Can some explain why when I compile the following:

I removed the stafx include to be left with this:

#include "windows.h"
#include "string.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
char szCurDir[MAX_PATH];
printf("Hello World!\n");
GetCurrentDirectory( MAX_PATH, szCurDir );
// ShellExecute(0,TEXT("open"), TEXT("test.txt"), NULL,szCurDir, 0);
ShellExecute(0,"open","test.txt",NULL,szCurDir,0);
return 0;
}

and then compiled the file using BCC++ 5.02 and this was the result:

---------------------------------------------------------------------
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Copyright (c) Xidicone Pty Ltd 1991-2001. All rights reserved.
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Borland C++ 5.0 for Win32 Copyright (c) 1993, 1996 Borland
c:\temp\t.cpp:
Warning c:\temp\t.cpp 14: Parameter 'argc' never used in ....
Warning c:\temp\t.cpp 14: Parameter 'argv' never used in ....

and as you can see it compiled fine.

Jussi Jumppanen
Author of: Zeus for Windows, Win32 (Brief, WordStar, Emacs) Text Editor
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