SHBindToObject

Having applied SP1 to VS2008 I have discovered a couple of things that, on
the face of it, appear quite marvellous. They are SHBindToObject and
SHBindToFolderIDListParent, there may even be more.

They require Vista though and I am running XP Pro x64 so I am facing an
upgrade dilemma.

From the help it doesn't seem to be necessary to play about with
allocating/freeing memory which I have had problems with using the
IShellFolder interface under XP.

Has anybody used these new functions? Does the OS take care of memory
allocation/de-allocation?

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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
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re: SHBindToObject

Jeff Gaines wrote:This post is better directed to comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32.

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re: SHBindToObject

On 24/08/2008 in message <48b18ad9$0$196$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nlJeroen
Mostert wrote:
I'm not sure why, I thought microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.interop was
for matters relating to using the API in NET. Have I misunderstood its
purpose?

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re: SHBindToObject

Jeff Gaines wrote:Not at all, but where in your question is there anything that relates to
..NET? Likewise, how is C# involved? That you may ultimately be calling these
functions from C# (and may have separate issues arising from that) is
another matter altogether.

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re: SHBindToObject

On 24/08/2008 in message <48b19ddc$0$187$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nlJeroen
Mostert wrote:
[snipped]
I am using C# in NET so it's an interop question.

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re: SHBindToObject

Not sure I understand exactly what you're asking, but both these
functions are merely helpers. They don't do anything you couldn't do
yourself before, but they might save you some work. And hopefully they
handle their memory allocations correctly, if they don't it would be a
bug.


Mattias

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re: SHBindToObject

On 05/09/2008 in message <#Xp1Pt6DJHA.616@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gblMattias
Sjögren wrote:
Hello Mattias, nice to hear from you again :-)

I appreciate you can achieve the same result with IShellFolder, but I
hoped the new dll function would handle memory allocation for me.

Now we just need IcontextMenu, IShellFolder.....


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Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
There are 3 types of people in this world. Those who can count, and those
who can't.