Gets detailed information, identified by a property set identifier (FMTID) and a property identifier (PID), on an item in a Shell folder.
Syntax
HRESULT GetDetailsEx(
PCUITEMID_CHILD pidl,
const SHCOLUMNID *pscid,
VARIANT *pv
);
Parameters
- pidl
-
[in] A pointer to an item identifier list (PIDL) of the item, relative to the parent folder. This method accepts only single-level PIDLs. The structure must contain exactly one SHITEMID structure followed by a terminating zero. This value cannot be NULL.
- pscid
-
[in] A pointer to an SHCOLUMNID structure that identifies the column.
- pv
-
[out] A pointer to a VARIANT with the requested information. The value is fully typed. The value returned for properties from the property system must conform to the type specified in that property definition's typeInfo as the legacyType attribute.
Return Value
Returns S_OK if successful, or an error value otherwise.
Remarks
This function is a more robust version of IShellFolder2::GetDetailsOf. It provides access to the information that is displayed in the Windows Explorer Details view of a Shell folder. The primary difference is that GetDetailsEx allows you to identify the column with an FMTID and PID structure instead of having to first determine the column index.