Dudi Keleti 2, 18 18 silver badges 32 32 bronze badges. Vasiliy Ermolovich Vasiliy Ermolovich So I assume this is at least available as far back as Win7 SP1. JoeB Windows 10 Creator Update here, still version 1. Adding a reference to Microsoft Shell controls and Automation is equivalent to adding shell The resulting reference is the same and contains only the Guid of the DLL. The solution above does not compile under windows 8 Shell CreateInstance shellAppType ; return Shell Folder shellAppType.
InvokeMember "NameSpace", System. Thanks — Mog0. Your answer looks very much like the answer from the Instantiate Shell Shell object in Windows 8 question in the Visual Studio Forum.
While your sentiment of updating this question is welcome, showing someone else's work without providing a link to it is called plagiarism and is not welcome on Stack Overflow. Please edit your answer and provide some kind of attribution if this is the case. I definitely did not intended to plagiarize the answer, I just don't remember where I got it from, beside I don't think I got it from there. A quick search on google, this solution pop up everywhere and some of them is even older than the link you provided.
I don't know what to say to that. Fair enough, but in future, please provide attribution when showing other people's work. This should be the accepted answer. It works fine on Windows Right click your project in the solution explorer. Choose "Add Reference Click the "Browse" tab. Choose the "shell You now have the appropriate reference for using Shell Edward Brey Edward Brey Generic; using System.
Linq; using System. Shell ; Shell NameSpace fileFolder ; Shell Bifrost Titan Bifrost Titan 11 2 2 bronze badges. Deprecation Reference: docs. Can't find a hint there, that it is deprecated to reference shell Linked from there are code-examples probing the dlls version eg docs. Notice each dll version is limited to an outdated operating system. For our task, we are going to persuade PowerShell to create a Shell.
Application; from there we will manipulate the Explorer programmatically. Application type of object. Let me take you step-by-step through the method. Application The first step is to create an object and assign it to a variable, for example:. Open — no good. Download your free copy of WMI Monitor. The idea behind a second version of opening the Windows Explorer is to give you perspective.
Dec 3rd, - Classic Shell is no longer actively developed After 8 years I have decided to stop developing Classic Shell. The source code for the latest version is released on SourceForge. More details here. Aug 12th, - General release 4. Jul 30th, - General release 4. May 22nd, - Beta version 4. May 21st, - Beta version 4.
Classic Start Menu See all features. Classic Explorer See all features. Choose between 3 different styles: Classic Two columns Windows 7. Many usability improvements to Explorer every feature can be turned on or off :.
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