How To Invoke the Shell's File Properties Dialog Box

SUMMARY

You can invoke the shell's file Properties dialog box for a file with the ShellExecuteEx API. In the SHELLEXECUTEINFO structure, set the SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST flag and the "properties" verb as follows:

   SHELLEXECUTEINFO sei;

   ZeroMemory(&sei,sizeof(sei));
   sei.cbSize = sizeof(sei);
   sei.lpFile = szPathOfFileToLaunchPropertiesOf;
   sei.lpVerb = "properties";
   sei.fMask  = SEE_MASK_INVOKEIDLIST;
   ShellExecuteEx(&sei);