NAME¶

SHCreateDirectory (SHELL32.165)

SYNOPSIS¶

DWORD SHCreateDirectory
(
HWND hWnd,
LPCVOID path
)

DESCRIPTION¶

This function creates a file system folder whose fully qualified path is given by path. If one or more of the intermediate folders do not exist, they will be created as well.

PARAMS¶

hWnd [In] . path [In] path of directory to create.

RETURNS¶

ERROR_SUCCESS or one of the following values: ERROR_BAD_PATHNAME if the path is relative ERROR_FILE_EXISTS when a file with that name exists ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND can't find the path, probably invalid ERROR_INVALID_NAME if the path contains invalid chars ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS when the directory already exists ERROR_FILENAME_EXCED_RANGE if the filename was to long to process.

NOTES¶

exported by ordinal Win9x exports ANSI WinNT/2000 exports Unicode

IMPLEMENTATION¶

Declared in "shlobj.h". Implemented in "dlls/shell32/shlfileop.c". Debug channel "shell".