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I want to select a directory or folder using the function<br />
SHGetPathFromIDList. As you know it is possible to set a root directory in the BROWSEINFO structure. The pidlRoot element of the BROWSEINFO takes a pointer to a ITEMIDLIST, so I want to convert an existing 0-terminated string eg. &quot;C:\DIR1&quot; into an ITEMIDLIST.<br />

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I want to select a directory or folder using the function
SHGetPathFromIDList. As you know it is possible to set a root directory in the BROWSEINFO structure. The pidlRoot element of the BROWSEINFO takes a pointer to a ITEMIDLIST, so I want to convert an existing 0-terminated string eg. "C:\DIR1" into an ITEMIDLIST.


Convert a path string into a ITEMIDLIST structure

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