Explore current path

I quite often use an ide written in assembler: RadAsm3(https://fbedit.svn.sourceforge.net/s...ase/RadASM.zip)

It has a menu item to explore current path.
I have used other ide's that have a similar feature but:
The one in RadAsm3 will activate a current Explorer window if the current path is the same as the one requested.
All others open a new Explorer window.

I would like to implement the RadAsm3 approach using Visual Studio 2013 Community c++ as my host compiler for testing.

I tried to get the title of current windows but it appears ShellExecute "explore" does not produce a conventional window???

Any suggestions?

James