I noticed, using a resource program, that the dialogs and the icons that the Windows platform uses, such as the file deletion dialog, are stored in the shell32.dll file.

How can I access these dialogs and these icons in a Visual C++ application? What is the command? Is it an API call, or simply something like command(dialogname, textString)?

Can I say retVal = [shellCommand()], storing the result in a variable like a message box? How do I fill in the strings used on those dialogs, such as %s%?

Do I have to do it differently for Win9x and XP?

Thanks!