\nSome time ago,\n\nwe used C++ to query information from the ShellWindows object\nand found it straightforward but cumbersome<\/A>.\n<\/P>\n \nLet’s use one of the languages the ShellWindows object was designed for\nto enumerate all the open shell windows.\nRun it with the command line \nWell that was quite a bit shorter, wasn’t it!\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some time ago, we used C++ to query information from the ShellWindows object and found it straightforward but cumbersome. This is rather clumsy from C++ because the ShellWindows object was designed for use by a scripting language like JScript or Visual Basic. Let’s use one of the languages the ShellWindows object was designed for to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-35043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Some time ago, we used C++ to query information from the ShellWindows object and found it straightforward but cumbersome. This is rather clumsy from C++ because the ShellWindows object was designed for use by a scripting language like JScript or Visual Basic. Let’s use one of the languages the ShellWindows object was designed for to […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nThis is rather clumsy from C++ because\n\nthe
ShellWindows<\/CODE> object<\/A>\nwas designed for use by a scripting language like JScript or Visual Basic. \n<\/BLOCKQUOTE>\ncscript sample.js<\/CODE>.\n<\/P>\n\nvar shellWindows = new ActiveXObject(“Shell.Application”).Windows();\nfor (var i = 0; i < shellWindows.Count; i++) {\n var w = shellWindows.Item(i);\n WScript.StdOut.WriteLine(w.LocationName + “=” + w.LocationURL);\n}\n<\/PRE>\n