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Creating a simple pidl: For the times you care enough to send the very fake

May 3, 2013 May 3, 2013 05/3/13

Raymond Chen

I'll assume that we all know what pidls are and how the shell namespace uses them. That's the prerequisite for today. A simple pidl is an item ID list that refers to a file or directory that may not actually exist. It's a way of playing "what if": "If there were a file or directory at this location, here is what I would have created to ...