PathIsContentTypeW function (shlwapi.h)

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02/22/2024

Determines if a file's registered content type matches the specified content type. This function obtains the content type for the specified file type and compares that string with the pszContentType. The comparison is not case-sensitive.

Syntax

BOOL PathIsContentTypeW(
  [in] LPCWSTR pszPath,
  [in] LPCWSTR pszContentType
);

Parameters

[in] pszPath

Type: LPCTSTR

A pointer to a null-terminated string of maximum length MAX_PATH that contains the file whose content type will be compared.

[in] pszContentType

Type: LPCTSTR

The address of a character buffer that contains the null-terminated content type string to which the file's registered content type will be compared.

Return value

Type: BOOL

Returns nonzero if the file's registered content type matches pszContentType, or zero otherwise.

Remarks

Note

The shlwapi.h header defines PathIsContentType as an alias that automatically selects the ANSI or Unicode version of this function based on the definition of the UNICODE preprocessor constant. Mixing usage of the encoding-neutral alias with code that is not encoding-neutral can lead to mismatches that result in compilation or runtime errors. For more information, see Conventions for Function Prototypes.

Requirements

Requirement	Value
Minimum supported client	Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP [desktop apps only]
Minimum supported server	Windows 2000 Server [desktop apps only]
Target Platform	Windows
Header	shlwapi.h
Library	Shlwapi.lib
DLL	Shlwapi.dll (version 4.71 or later)

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