What are the Standard Header Files?

[CornedBee]

You either can create a console application and write a main function, or create a GUI function and write a WinMain function. If you don't want anything to appear you write a GUI app, a WinMain, include <windows.h> but don't create a window, just use the ShellExecute.

Actually, you don't need any include at all:

extern "C" void* ShellExecuteA(void*, const char* szOp, const char*szFile, const char* szParams, const char* szDirectory, int iShowCmd);

int WinMain(void* hInst, void*, char* szParams, int iShowCmd)
{
  int iErr = (int)ShellExecuteA(  // the HINSTANCE return is for compatibility only
    0, 0, // no parent and no op (= open)
    "drive:\\path1\\path2\\filename.ext",  // the file to open
    szParams, // just pass our own params
    "drive:\\path1\\path2", // default path is execution directory
    iShowCmd);  // show the same way this was intended to be shown
}

And you only need one import libraray, I think it's SHLWAPI.LIB.
Then you have a valid app.



Of course this is not recommended.