Hi All, Let me begin by saying that I am a C# developer and I need some help figuring out C++ code. I have no idea if the following code is shell programming code or native C++. ================== Image* ThumbnailExtractor::GetThumbnailImage(String* fileName, int longestEdge, int colorDepth) { // allocate some unmanaged memory for our strings and divide the file name // into a folder path and file name. IntPtr dirPtr = Marshal::StringToHGlobalUni(Path::GetDirectoryName(fileName)); IntPtr filePtr = Marshal::StringToHGlobalUni(Path::GetFileName(fileName)); WCHAR* wDirName = static_cast<WCHAR*>(dirPtr.ToPointer()); WCHAR* wFileName = static_cast<WCHAR*>(filePtr.ToPointer()); IShellFolder* pDesktop = NULL; IShellFolder* pSub = NULL; IExtractImage* pIExtract = NULL; LPITEMIDLIST pList = NULL; Bitmap* pImg = NULL; *** rest of the code follows here *** } ========== So is this shell programming? I am trying to understand what Image*, String*, WCHAR*, IntPtr mean and which namespace or header file do I need to include to use them? Again, please pardon my ignorance.
>Let me begin by saying that I am a C# developer and I need some help >figuring out C++ code. I have no idea if the following code is shell >programming code or native C++. The language is C++/CLI. As to whether you'd call it "shell" programming depends on what you think that term may mean - what does the code do eventually? >So is this shell programming? I am trying to understand what Image*, >String*, WCHAR*, IntPtr mean and which namespace or header file do I need to >include to use them? If you look them up in MSDN, they're all documented - for instance, the method you showed exists as Image::GetThumbnailImage in MSDN, but you'd normally call it, whereas your code looks like an implementation of it - possibly for your own graphic file format?. Dave
