Common Dialog in Windows 7

[laijim]

Once upon a time I could write a line of code to show Microsoft's common dialog box like this:

Set objOpenDialog = CreateObject("UserAccounts.CommonDialog")

I understand that this has been depreciated because of security concerns. I have a project where a field computer is using Windows 7; does anyone know the Windows 7 equivalent to the above line of code which will simply open the common dialog box?

Thanks!

Jim

 

[linney]

Anything useful in these similar questions?

Vista and vbscript: activeX component can't create object: useraccounts.commondialog'

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ITCG/thread/bd96d326-59f2-42b0-b04d-4ed65c4ce692

UserAccounts.CommonDialog alternative for Vista

http://www.msghelp.net/showthread.php?tid=88579

 

[laijim]

Thanks for your imput, I'll check it out.

Jim

 

[Nelviticus]

Here's an article from Microsoft's 'Scripting Guys' on how to do it using Windows PowerShell (or Windows PowersHell if you prefer):
Hey, Scripting Guy! Can I Open a File Dialog Box with Windows PowerShell?

Regards


Nelviticus

 

[laijim]

Thanks for sending that link along. I'm not sure I'll be able to make it work in my situation, though. I need to write the code in vb script (the code is within a GIS mobile mapping application in which vb script is used for customization). Right now I am experimenting a bit with the code...

Jim

 

[dilettante]

That class was never documented for user consumption. It would be no effort at all to create a DLL to do the same thing though, and even VBScript hosted in a 3rd party application would be able to use it then.

There must be a "script helper" DLL floating around that provides a few commonly desired functions like this.