SHGetSpecialFolderLocation function (shlobj_core.h)

[SHGetSpecialFolderLocation is not supported and may be altered or unavailable in the future. Instead, use SHGetFolderLocation.]

Retrieves a pointer to the ITEMIDLIST structure of a special folder.

HRESULT SHGetSpecialFolderLocation(
  [in]  HWND             hwnd,
  [in]  int              csidl,
  [out] PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE *ppidl
);

[in] hwnd

Type: HWND

Reserved.

[in] csidl

Type: int

A CSIDL value that identifies the folder of interest.

[out] ppidl

Type: PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE*

A PIDL specifying the folder's location relative to the root of the namespace (the desktop). It is the responsibility of the calling application to free the returned IDList by using CoTaskMemFree.

Type: HRESULT

If this function succeeds, it returns S_OK. Otherwise, it returns an HRESULT error code.

SHGetSpecialFolderPath