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Jonathan Benedicto wrote:
> "George Francis" <george_f@hotmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:42f3d881$1@newsgroups.borland.com...
> 
>>Hello, I am trying to use the following code to read the user's Send To 
>>directory:
>>
>>  char cBuf[MAX_PATH];
>>  LPITEMIDLIST pidl;
>>  SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(0, CSIDL_SENDTO, &pidl);
>>  SHGetPathFromIDList(pidl, cBuf);
>>
>>It compiles OK, but I get an access violation Exception on the call to 
>>SHGetSpecialFolderLocation.
>>Can anyone suggest why?
> 
> 
> No, but maybe you might want to use this code instead:
> 
> AnsiString __fastcall GetSpecialPath(int Folder)
> {
>     char Path[MAX_PATH + 1] = { 0 };
>     if( ::SHGetSpecialFolderPath( NULL, Path, Folder, 0 ) )
>         return AnsiString( Path );
>     return "";
> }
> 
> GetSpecialPath( CSIDL_SENDTO );
> 
> Jonathan 
> 
> 

Thanks but I've discovered the actual exception is being thrown from the 
last line of this code:

   IUnknown* Unknown  = CreateComObject(CLSID_ShellLink);
   IShellLink* ISLink = ((IShellLink*) Unknown );
   ISLink->SetPath( _argv[0].c_str());