Re: How to get "MyDocuments" path of a system?

From:

"Tom Serface" <tserface@msn.com>

Newsgroups:

microsoft.public.vc.mfc

Date:

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 15:12:15 -0700

Message-ID:

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Thanks for the explanation.

Tom

"AliR" <AliR@online.nospam> wrote in message
news:44f4b0f0$0$15221$a8266bb1@reader.corenews.com...

Hi Tom,

For newer versions (Win 2000 and up) you are supposed to use
SHGetFolderPath
instead of SHGetSpecialFolderPath. SHGetFolderPath is also backward
compatible for versions before 2000.

This is from the SHGetSpecialFolderPath help
With Microsoft Windows 2000, this function is superseded by
ShGetFolderPath.
You can use this function on earlier systems by including the
redistributable dynamic-link library (DLL), ShFolder.dll.

This is from SHGetFolderPath help
This function is a superset of SHGetSpecialFolderPath, included with
earlier
versions of the Shell. On systems preceeding those including Shell32.dll
version 5.0 (Windows Millennium Edition (Windows Me) and Windows 2000),
SHGetFolderPath was obtained through SHFolder.dll, distributed with
Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 and later versions. SHFolder.dll always
calls the current platform's version of this function. If that fails, it
will try to simulate the appropriate behavior. SHFolder.dll continues to
be
included for backward compatibility, though the function is now
implemented
in Shell32.dll.