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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 18:49

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"Willie" <Willie.nospam@nospam.pchome.com.tw> wrote in message
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> Yes, I want to create a custom CSIDL value for it.

In that case, it can't be done.  CSIDL values are constants that are defined
in the OS itself.  You can't create your own custom ones, as far as I know.

> And I can see this folder at the top of tree at Explorer
> (like "My Documents").

That is a completely different matter altogether.  Such folders are Virtual
Folders that are managed by custom Shell Namespace Extension DLLs, which
expose custom implementations of the IShellFolder, IShellView and other
related interfaces:

    Creating a Shell Namespace Extension

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersgu
ide/shell_adv/namespaceextension/namespace.asp


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