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>I would use the integrated approach when available. WSH, ADSI, WMI, etc. are great COM-based wrappers to the WinAPI. A lot of the WinAPI functionality that would require memory management and structure manipulation has been incorprated into those packages with an easy VFP friendly interface.
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Yes, integrated approach more convenient. And as I can see, MS makes steps on system level in object-oriented direction. For example, Shell32 now exports not only API functions but Shell object too. But now we on beginning of that way and WinAPI is still necessary. It would be better to allow developer work with API. It's not a problem to call a function with structure as parameter in VB.