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Re: Localized name for My Documents

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 17:15
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Martin Nijhoff wrote:

>How can I get the localized name of the My Documents folder?
>
>I use SHGetSpecialFolderLocation() to get the PIDL to the folder. With
>IShellFolder::GetDisplayNameOf() I can only get the file path to the folder
>(which is D:\Docs in my case), but not the name that is used to display My
>Documents (or Mijn Documenten in dutch, Eigene Dateien in german, etc.) in
>for example Start | Recent Docs.

The code listed under "Using PIDLs and Display Names" is a bit messy.
What does your's look like?
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