SHBrowseForFolder doesn't work for network selection in win7

Question

Hi,

I use SHBrowseForFolder in my code. It works well in XP. But I find it dose not run well in Windows 7 with the same code. When I click a network, it does nothing. But it can expand in XP. By the way, I have the permission to access the network of another computer and I try accessing the resource with explorer, it's OK!

Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Not sure it's the help you wanted, but I found this on the function's MSDN page:

For Windows Vista or later, it is recommended that you use IFileDialog with the FOS_PICKFOLDERS option rather than the SHBrowseForFolder function. This uses the Open Files dialog in pick folders mode and is the preferred implementation.

Answer 2

It should be:

BROWSEINFO bi;
// ..... omit oters bi.ulFlags = /*BIF_DONTGOBELOWDOMAIN |*/ BIF_RETURNONLYFSDIRS | BIF_NEWDIALOGSTYLE ;

I add one more flag BIF_BROWSEFORCOMPUTER to the ulFlags

Answer 3

There's a mixup here of the FileDialog APIs of COMMDLG and the IFileDlg interface, the latter existing in Vista and Win2008 Server only.