How do I open "Windows Search" in a Visual Basic application?

Question

How can I open "Windows Search Companion" or "Windows Basic Search" for a specific folder in an application using Visual Basic ?

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Answer 1

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VBA/VB6 Code

Option Explicit

'~~> API declaration for the windows "Search Results" dialog
Private Declare Function ShellSearch& Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Long)

Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

Const drv As String = "C:\"

Sub Sample()
    ShellSearch 0, "Find", drv, "", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL
End Sub

Tested in VBA

In Win XP

In Win 7

VB.NET (Tested on Visual Studio Ultimate 64 bit)

'~~> API declaration for the windows "Search Results" dialog
Private Declare Function ShellSearch Lib "shell32.dll" _
Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Integer, ByVal lpOperation As String, _
ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, _
ByVal nShowCmd As Integer) As Integer

Private Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

Const drv As String = "C:\"

Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object,
ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click
    ShellSearch(0, "Find", drv, "", "", SW_SHOWNORMAL)
End Sub