Question

I’m trying to write some info to the user’s documents folder (eg. C:\Documents and Settings\[userName]), but I can’t seem to find out how to grab the path programmatically. Is there any way to do this? C++, not using .NET.

Thanks!

Answer 1

SHGetFolderPath with CSIDL_PERSONAL can be used to get the user’s Documents folder.

WCHAR path[MAX_PATH];
HRESULT hr = SHGetFolderPath(NULL, CSIDL_PERSONAL, NULL,
                             SHGFP_TYPE_CURRENT, path);