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  • Jeff Gaines
    #1

    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
    SHBindToFolderI DListParent, 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?

    --
    Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
    Indecision is the key to flexibility
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    • Jeroen Mostert
      #2
      Re: SHBindToObject

      Jeff Gaines wrote:
      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
      SHBindToFolderI DListParent, there may even be more.
      >
      This post is better directed to comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.

      --
      J.

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        • Jeff Gaines
          #3
          Re: SHBindToObject

          On 24/08/2008 in message <48b18ad9$0$196 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nlJeroen
          Mostert wrote:
          >Jeff Gaines wrote:
          >>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
          >>SHBindToFolde rIDListParent, there may even be more.
          >>
          >This post is better directed to comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.
          I'm not sure why, I thought microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.interop was
          for matters relating to using the API in NET. Have I misunderstood its
          purpose?

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

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            • Jeroen Mostert
              #4
              Re: SHBindToObject

              Jeff Gaines wrote:
              On 24/08/2008 in message <48b18ad9$0$196 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nlJeroen
              Mostert wrote:
              >
              >Jeff Gaines wrote:
              >>Having applied SP1 to VS2008 I have discovered a couple of things
              >>that, on the face of it, appear quite marvellous. They are
              >>SHBindToObjec t and SHBindToFolderI DListParent, there may even be more.
              >>>
              >This post is better directed to comp.os.ms-windows.program mer.win32.
              >
              I'm not sure why, I thought microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.interop
              was for matters relating to using the API in NET. Have I misunderstood
              its purpose?
              >
              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.

              --
              J.

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                • Jeff Gaines
                  #5
                  Re: SHBindToObject

                  On 24/08/2008 in message <48b19ddc$0$187 $e4fe514c@news. xs4all.nlJeroen
                  Mostert wrote:
                  >Jeff Gaines wrote:
                  [snipped]
                  >>I'm not sure why, I thought microsoft.publi c.dotnet.framew ork.interop was
                  >>for matters relating to using the API in NET. Have I misunderstood its
                  >>purpose?
                  >>
                  >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.
                  I am using C# in NET so it's an interop question.

                  --
                  Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
                  If you ever find something you like buy a lifetime supply because they
                  will stop making it

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                    • Mattias Sjögren
                      #6
                      Re: SHBindToObject

                      >Has anybody used these new functions? Does the OS take care of memory
                      >allocation/de-allocation?
                      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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                        • Jeff Gaines
                          #7
                          Re: SHBindToObject

                          On 05/09/2008 in message <#Xp1Pt6DJHA.61 6@TK2MSFTNGP06. phx.gblMattias
                          Sjögren wrote:
                          >
                          >>Has anybody used these new functions? Does the OS take care of memory
                          >>allocation/de-allocation?
                          >
                          >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
                          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... ..


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

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