Drive Mapping

Drive Mapping
Greg Osborne
gregosborne@vp.net

When users run your applications, it will be a pain if they have to start Windows Explorer to map a needed drive. Reader Greg Osborne of Fort Collins, Colo., provides us with a way to map and unmap drives from within an application. The tip below includes the code for a class, as well as code to allow testing of the class.

I have often needed to add drive mapping and unmapping capabilities to an application that I have written. Over the years, I have come up with a class that I have added to my projects which allows the creation of network drive m

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appings both through code or through the use of the built-in windows dialogs.

The class code is below - its fairly long but encompasses many API functions. Also contains an error event you can use in your application for trapping errors that may occur.

Start a new ActiveX DLL project. Name the project NW and the Class Networking

The above code relies heavily on a resource file with the following entries:

Below is some code for testing - create a new form with one command button