Obtaining the Sample Code

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All of the sample Visual Basic source code from Visual Basic Shell Programming is freely downloadable from the O'Reilly & Associates web site at http://vb.oreilly.com. The downloadable content itself falls into three categories:

Sample source code: Most of the examples developed in this book are intended to illustrate how to build a particular kind of shell extension without providing a real world implementation. In this case, you'll benefit from looking at the code and using it as the basis of the shell extensions that you yourself would like to develop.
Working shell extensions: Several of the examples developed in this book are complete working extensions that you may want to use. RegSpace, for example, allows you to browse the registry from Explorer without requiring that you open RegEdit or a similar registry browsing tool.
Shell programming type library: Creating a type library that defines the interfaces and methods called by the shell in handling shell extensions is a prerequisite for any serious (and even not so serious) attempt to develop shell extensions. The VB Shell Library, which is described in the following section, is also available both in its source code (IDL) and compiled forms from the O'Reilly Visual Basic web site (http://vb.oreilly.com).

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