Need expert advice on Shell Programming with Visual Basic

[daydee]

Specifically looking to find out more regarding:

Copy Hook Handler - Which is called when a folder object is about to be copied, moved, deleted, or renamed. The handler can either allow or prevent the operation.

Unless there exist another way with VB to prevent a folder from being renamed ? This is actually what I'm trying to do.

Thank in advance

[Gandalf_Grey_]

why not just make a temp file in that folder, then open that file in your program, when someone trys to rename it, it will give them that error about

[daydee]

Originally posted by Gandalf_Grey_
why not just make a temp file in that folder, then open that file in your program, when someone trys to rename it, it will give them that error about

Ok here's what I tried.
I created a file named myFile.tmp in my C:\Test directory and opened it in my app using this code:

intFF = FreeFile
Open "C:\Test\myFile.tmp" For Input Lock Read Write As #intFF

With app running, went and renamed C:\Test folder but did not get any errors!?
Any idea?
Does the .tmp file have to be created at run time as well?