PathIsDirectory Function

Verifies that a path is a valid directory.

Syntax

BOOL PathIsDirectory(      
    LPCTSTR pszPath );

Parameters

pszPath
[in] A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the path to verify.

Return Value

Returns TRUE if the path is a valid directory (FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY is set), or FALSE otherwise.

Function Information

Minimum DLL Versionshlwapi.dll version 4.71 or later
Custom ImplementationNo
Headershlwapi.h
Import libraryshlwapi.lib
Minimum operating systems Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 with Internet Explorer 4.0, Windows 98, Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0
UnicodeImplemented as ANSI and Unicode versions.
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mortaza.doulaty
This function performs IO as it needs to query the file in question for its attributes

Locally this is usually fast, but over the network this can be slow. Don't make this call on UI threads, instead call this function in background worker threads.

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