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I have been using the Microsoft P/Invoke Interop Assistant tool to generate some structures, delegates etc. from native C/C++ code.
An example of one of these is a function pointer (delegate), which resolves in managed code to the following names:
EnumCalendarInfoProcA
EnumCalendarInfoProcW
EnumCalendarInfoProcExA
EnumCalendarInfoProcExW
Can anyone explain the difference between A and W and ExA and ExW?
Some functions have several formats. Either Ascii (MessageBoxA) or wide char / unicode (MessageBoxW).
When a function does the same, but more, the name usually gets a postfix ‘Ex’, and probably means extended.
Like the following functions
MessageBox:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645505(v=vs.85).aspx
MessageBoxEx:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms645507(v=vs.85).aspx
where MessageBoxEx is extended by the parameter wLanguageId.