Can either of you provide a patch?

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Joshua Boyce
<raptorfac...@raptorfactor.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 6:21 PM, Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> these do not exist. they are used for fixing and getting specialfolder
>> paths in vista+
>>         //SHGetKnownFolderPath
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762188%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>         //KNOWN_FOLDER_FLAG
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378447%28v=vs.85%29.aspx
>>         //KNOWNFOLDERID
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd378457(v=vs.85).aspx
>>
>> the deprecated function is there, but does not work in vista+,  only
>> 2000/xp.
>> namely these exist:
>>         //SHGetSpecialFolderPath
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762204%28VS.85%29.aspx
>>         //CSIDL
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762494%28v=VS.85%29.aspx
>>
>
> The old APIs still work on Vista+, however the old APIs don't offer all the
> functionality of the new ones. For example, any new special folder types
> added in Vista cannot be retrieved with the old API.
>
> I'd like to see this added too. (Along with CComPtr, IFileOperation,
> IShellItem2, etc)
>
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