ShlwApiPathUnExpandEnvStrings Method

Replaces certain folder names in a fully qualified path with their associated environment string.

Definition

Namespace: DevCase.Win32.NativeMethods
Assembly: DevCase.net48 (in DevCase.net48.dll) Version: 6.0.0.0 (6.0)
XMLNS for XAML: Not mapped to an xmlns.
[DllImportAttribute("ShlwApi.dll", CharSet = CharSet.Auto, BestFitMapping = false, 
	ThrowOnUnmappableChar = true, SetLastError = true)]
public static bool PathUnExpandEnvStrings(
	string path,
	StringBuilder buffer,
	uint bufferSize
)

Parameters

path  String
A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the path to be unexpanded.
buffer  StringBuilder
A pointer to a buffer that, when this method returns successfully, receives the unexpanded string.

The size of this buffer must be set to MAX_PATH to ensure that it is large enough to hold the returned string.

bufferSize  UInt32
The size, in characters, in the buffer parameter.

Return Value

Boolean
Returns if successful; otherwise, .

Remarks

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