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Default filename appears truncated in Windows IFileDialog

When using the Windows IFileDialog interface to launch File browser dialog, I face an issue if the default filename provided exceeds certain number of characters. The filename appears truncated, although it is simply wrapped around so that we can…
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Error using C++ COM/IFileDialog in VS Code while the same code works in Visual Studio. Message: 'IID_IFileOpenDialog' was not declared in this scope

I have C++ code where I'm trying to open a file select dialog with the Component Object Model's IFileDialog. The code works in Visual Studio but when I type the exact same code in VS Code, there are 2 errors: IID_IFileOpenDialog' was not declared in…
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IFileDialog: Add a Custom Place - and select that place

I am using IFileDialog::AddPlace to add e.g. "c:\\my\\custom\\location" as a custom place to select files from to the navigation panel on the left, and set that as (default/forced) initial folder. However, when the dialog opens, the root drive (C:…
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How to change the displayed name of a folder added to IFileDialog using AddPlace

I've implemented my own File Dialog using the IFileDialog interface, and I am adding Places to the file dialog. I need to change the displayed name of a place to my own text, because if I have two places that happen to have the same name, they are…
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How add Multiselect to this custom File Dialog

I want to added Multiselect to this custom File Dialog. I add the "FOS_ALLOWMULTISELECT" and i can select more than one folder. But when i want to get the folders name the same way, when Multiselect=false, the shellItemArray comes null and not with…
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Any trick for opening Windows Explorer file dialog without any shell extensions?

When we trigger File>>Open from within our application, we open a Windows Explorer file dialog... standard for most of the world's Windows applications. This means that any shell extension DLLs that a user has installed now get loaded as part of our…
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LNK2019 with a sample from MSDN

Tried to copy the code from the .cpp file in Common File Dialog Sample got some LNK2019. It seems like a problem with the linking of 3 functions. Here are the errors: Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error …
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