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by Alister Neave » Thu, 17 Nov 2005 07:04:57 GMT

I have code that changes icons on the desktop and startmenu which uses
whsom.ocx ver 5.6.0.8820

In the article http://www.philippursglove.com/VB/binaries/UsingWSH.pdf in
the section 'Differences in Version 5.6', it mentions that this version in
currently in beta, will break code that uses the old declaration of
IWshShell_Class.

My code uses the old declaration, and it works fine but I'm a tad nervous
because this code will be run by 3,000 clients and I don't want to cop an
avalanche of support calls! Maybe in this build Microsoft have adopted the
suggestion to support the old interface, and this change was made after the
article was written. I can't find a date that the article was written, and
can't contact the writer at the email addres given

Can anyone shed light on this?



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