Retrieving a Connection Name (Windows CE 5.0)
WNet provides two functions for retrieving a connection name: WNetGetUniversalName and WNetGetConnection. WNetGetUniversalName takes a drive-based path for a network connection and obtains a more universal name in the form of a data structure.
WNetGetConnection enables an application to retrieve the name of a network resource associated with a local device. The following code example shows how WNetGetConnection retrieves the network name of a local device called MyDevice.
TCHAR szDeviceName[80];
DWORD dwResult,
cchBuffer = sizeof (szDeviceName);
dwResult = WNetGetConnection (TEXT("MyDevice"), szDeviceName,
&cchBuffer);
switch (dwResult)
{
case ERROR_SUCCESS:
MessageBox (hwnd, szDeviceName, TEXT("Info"), MB_OK);
break;
case ERROR_NOT_CONNECTED:
MessageBox (hwnd, TEXT("MyDevice is not connected."),
TEXT("Info"), MB_OK);
break;
case ERROR_CONNECTION_UNAVAIL:
// A connection is remembered, but not connected.
MessageBox (hwnd, TEXT("Connection unavailable."),
TEXT("Info"), MB_OK);
break;
default:
ErrorHandler (hwnd, dwResult, TEXT("WNetGetConnection"));
break;
}
See Also
Windows Networking API/Redirector Application Development | Managing Network Connections with WNet | Retrieving Network Data
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