Di bawah ini merupakan procedure VB6 untuk memindahkan/menghapus file ke dalam recycle bin. Bagaimana kodenya dalam Visual Basic 6.0? bisa kita simak di bawah ini:
Option Explicit
Private Declare Function SHFileOperation Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "SHFileOperationA" (lpFileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT) As Long
Private Type SHFILEOPSTRUCT
    hwnd As Long
    wFunc As Long
    pFrom As String
    pTo As String
    fFlags As Integer
    fAnyOperationsAborted As Long
    hNameMappings As Long
    lpszProgressTitle As Long
End Type
Private Const FO_DELETE = &H3
Private Const FOF_ALLOWUNDO = &H40
Private Const FOF_NOCONFIRMATION = &H10
Private Const FOF_SILENT = &H4
Public Sub SendFileToRecycleBin(FileName As String, Optional Confirm As Boolean = True, Optional Silent As Boolean = False)
    Dim FileOp As SHFILEOPSTRUCT
    With FileOp
        .wFunc = FO_DELETE
        .pFrom = FileName
         fFlags = FOF_ALLOWUNDO
        If Not Confirm Then .fFlags = .fFlags + FOF_NOCONFIRMATION
        If Silent Then .fFlags = .fFlags + FOF_SILENT
    End With
    SHFileOperation FileOp
End Sub
Contoh penggunaan procedure VB6 di atas:
Private Sub Command1_Click()
    SendFileToRecycleBin "c:\42.tmp", True, False
End Sub