I found a "solution" for my property dialog question.
Shellexecute offers a verb "properties" that is supposed to display the properties dialog of a file or folder.

When I call it from VB I always get an error SE_ERR_NOASSOC which means that there is no file associated with the given extension, which is plain wrong.

I tried it with all extensions I can think of.


Dim lResult as Long
lResult = ShellExecute(me.hwnd, "properties", "c:\winnt\system32\shell32.dll", vbNullString, vbNullString, 1)
MsgBox lResult




Any hints?