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Asked: 2026-05-28T20:41:42+00:00

char buffer[MAX_PATH]; SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL,buffer, CSIDL_INTERNET,FALSE ); Error: cannot convert parameter 2 from ‘char [260]’ to

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char buffer[MAX_PATH];
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(NULL,buffer, CSIDL_INTERNET,FALSE );

Error: cannot convert parameter 2 from ‘char [260]’ to ‘LPWSTR’
The OS windows 7 64 bit and Visual Studio 2010. I want to run this code in both windows XP as well as Win7.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You are building targeting Unicode rather than ANSI. But you are passing an ANSI buffer. You can fix this by a number of means:

    1. Using a Unicode buffer: wchar_t buffer[MAX_PATH].
    2. Switch to targeting ANSI in your project config.
    3. Call the ANSI function directly. It’s called SHGetSpecialFolderPathA.

    My preference would be to use a Unicode buffer, option 1.

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