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Contents: Visual Basic and Portfolio, Introduction to the Portfolio Automation Interface, How to add Portfolio to your Visual Basic project, The Portfolio Object Model: Creating Portfolio Objects, Opening Catalogs, Opening Catalogs on a Server, Opening catalogs with User-based access, Creating Catalogs, Working with Catalogs, Selecting a Gallery, Sorting a Gallery, Working with Galleries, Saving A Gallery, Adding files to a Gallery, How to access the Advanced Options.
Visual Basic and Portfolio. This document provides a brief overview of the Portfolio commands available via the Automation interface in Extensis Portfolio 8.0 for Windows. The examples covered here are written in Microsoft Visual Basic 6. The source code for the sample applications is provided in both Visual Basic 6 and Visual Basic .NET (2003) format. Users familiar with other languages capable of using Automation should be able to extrapolate from the examples for their particular languages. This document assumes a basic level of working familiarity with Visual Basic. This document is not meant to be an introduction to Visual Basic or as a tutorial for how to script Portfolio to perform specific tasks. For more information about the basics of Visual Basic, please visit http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/ . This site contains a great deal of useful information on Visual Basic as well as links to other programming-related websites. For more information on how to script Extensis Portfolio, please refer to the additional files provided on the Extensis CD, or with your product download. Introduction to the Portfolio Automation Interface. How to add Portfolio to your Visual Basic project All objects, properties and methods of the Portfolio interface (as described in the rest of this document) are supported in the Portfolio_V8 automation interface. To expose the Portfolio object, and its family of classes, to your Visual Basic code, you must first include it in the reference options in your VB project. Use the Project References dialog within the VB interface to select the Portfolio_V8 library. Once this has been done, your VB application will be aware of the Portfolio document interface and you can reference the family of classes within your VB code…

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