SHChangeNotifyRegister

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4/8/2010

This function enlists a window for receiving change notifications.

Syntax

BOOL WINAPI SHChangeNotifyRegister(
  HWND hwnd,
  SHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY * pshcne
);

hwnd
[in] Handle to the window that will receive the WM_FILECHANGEINFO message.

pshcne
[in] Pointer to a SHCHANGENOTIFYENTRY structure identifying the types of events for which the window should receive change notifications. Set to NULL and the window will receive all file system, network, and media notifications.

This function returns FALSE when it fails.

SHChangeNotifyRegister does not recognize recursive notifications.

For this structure is defined in the Shlobj.h header file and ceshell.lib DLL.

Header	aygshell.h
Library	aygshell.lib
Windows Embedded CE	Windows CE .NET 4.2 and later
Windows Mobile	Windows Mobile Version 5.0 and later