Re: win32api.txt

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Having the constant names does no good as VB 6 doesn't know the values.

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"Mike D Sutton" <EDais@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > i've relied on the oct 2001 msdn librarym but occasionaly find that
> > something is missing.
> > of course, msft has to learn how to document.
> >
> > i found an msdn page that supposedly lists all the csidl constabt names
and
> > their descriptions. you'd think that common sense wouldhave lead to
> > including the constants on that same page.
>
> You have to remember that it's a non-issue with C developers for whom the
platform SDK is aimed towards (they simply
> include the header file and every constant is at their fingertips), the
point of having content names is that the actual
> values need never be used. Also a lot of things with the platform SDK
have changed since October 2001, if you're
> working with any functionality released in the last three and a half
_years_ then it won't be in there - that's a very
> long time in the development community..
> I would still recommend that you grab a more recent version of the
platform SDK, the current version of the MSDN is also
> available online at Http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mike
>
>
> - Microsoft Visual Basic MVP -
> E-Mail: EDais@xxxxxxxx
> WWW: Http://EDais.mvps.org/
>
>


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