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3.03.2014 How to Open a Folder in Windows Explorer

We often need to open a directory/folder in a File Manager to show its contents. Today we learn how to run Windows Explorer to automatically show the content of a directory of our choice.

We all have these gigabytes and terabytes of hard disks in our computers. But what's the use of this huge storage if we cannot see where our files are and in which folder they are located? Of course we can. With our very own IDE, Lazarus!

File browsers are very useful in our everyday lives. What if you can create a file browser in 2 Minutes? ...without writing code? Yes! That's how we do it in Lazarus.

You can drag and drop files to softwares, that's old news. But can you drag & drop files over YOUR own software? Yes. And we learn how to...

Ever wanted to make your own Zip Viewer? In this article we look at a simple code for listing the files/folders inside a ZIP file, without any third party libraries.

Zip files are a very common way of sharing multiple files compressed into a single file. Zip files are supported in various platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux etc.). We can use many softwares to create a zip file, such as 7-zip, WinZip, WinRAR etc. But today we are going to make zip files on our own program!

It is a common question. In your code, sometimes you need to define where your EXE is running from. Then you can load any file from the application's directory or subdirectories. Let's learn how to.