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Accessing All of Windows Special Folders

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Get the path names to Windows special folders; optionally create the folders if they are missing; access physical and virtual special folders.
Imports System
Imports System.Reflection
Imports System.Runtime.InteropServices

' General Information about an assembly is controlled through the following 
' set of attributes. Change these attribute values to modify the information
' associated with an assembly.

' Review the values of the assembly attributes

<Assembly: AssemblyTitle("SpecialFolders")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyDescription("Example of ZED.WinAPI.SHELL32 Special Folders.")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCompany("ZED Limited, New Zealand")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyProduct("SpecialFolders")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")> 

<Assembly: ComVisible(False)>

'The following GUID is for the ID of the typelib if this project is exposed to COM
<Assembly: Guid("b95303e6-5aaf-4092-ae84-e50008be57f1")> 

' Version information for an assembly consists of the following four values:
'
'      Major Version
'      Minor Version 
'      Build Number
'      Revision
'
' You can specify all the values or you can default the Build and Revision Numbers 
' by using the '*' as shown below:
' <Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.*")> 

<Assembly: AssemblyVersion("1.0.0.0")> 
<Assembly: AssemblyFileVersion("1.0.0.0")> 

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New Zealand New Zealand
A DEC PDP/11 BasicPlus2 developer from the 80s.

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