RegLoadMUIStrin g Vista P-Invoke

[lissbpp]

Hello,
I'm trying to get an MUI string out of the registry in display friendly
format. From what I've read, strings in the following format:
“@[path]\dllname,-strID� are MUI strings and receive special handling via
the RegLoadMUIStrin g API call.

This is what I have come up with for the call:
[DllImport("adva pi32.dll")]
internal static extern long RegLoadMUIStrin g(IntPtr hKey, string pszValue,
StringBuilder pszOutBuf, int cbOutBuf, out int pcbData, uint Flags, string
pszDirectory);

I'm calling this function with a valid pointer to an open registry key,
passing in the appropriate value key (pszValue) which has the MUI formatted
string. When I check the output buffer (pszOutBuf) it's always an empty
string.

Has anyone been able to get this call to work? I cannot find any examples
on the web.

thanks,
-bp

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

No offence taken, I understand, anyway I would suggest you post Vista issues
to the Vista forums, for instance SDK related issues can be posted to
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/Sho...D=121&SiteID=1, and I
would also suggest you to report an issue to the feedback site at :
http://connect.microsoft.com:80/feed...spx?SiteID=210

Willy.

and it's Willy ;-)

"lissbpp" <li*****@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote in message
news:7D******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
| Thanks for looking into this for me Willie and sorry about the last post.
| I've been a bit frustrated trying to figure out the problem.
|
| -bp
|
| "Willy Denoyette [MVP]" wrote:
|
| >
| "lissbpp" <li*****@discus sions.microsoft .comwrote in message
| news:8A******** *************** ***********@mic rosoft.com...
| | I'm not going to sit in here and talk best practices with you; I
simply
| want
| | to get my code working.
| |
| >
| If you did apply these best practices and searched the API description
in
| the SDK doc's for the
| signature and the meaning of the return value in you wouldn't even be
here.
| Anyway, this API isn't yet implemented on the RC1 build, don't know
about
| RC2 though.
| >
| Willy.
| >
| >
| >
| >