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Dockyard
Material in test.

Dockyard

LaunchinIE Component, version 2.03

Features:

  1. New ShellExecute() method. -- Use: obj.ShellExecute("open", "word.doc");

    Its syntax is identical to the Windows Shell function ShellExecute(): see MSDN for full documentation (the nShowCmd argument is not supported).
  2. Full support for ErrorInfo.
  3. Solved minor memory allocation defect.
  4. Both LaunchApplication() and ShellExecute() now throw exceptions when the application or document couldn't be opened

Download version 2.03 (ZIP, 34K)

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Material in test. (-)

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