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4/8/2010

This function gets the path to the directory designated for temporary files on a remote Windows Embedded CE–based device.

Syntax 

DWORD CeGetTempPath(
  DWORD 
nBufferLength,
  LPWSTR 
lpBuffer 
);

Parameters

nBufferLength

[in] Size of lpBufferin characters.

lpBuffer

[out] Reference to a wide string buffer that receives the null-terminated wide string specifying the temporary path. The returned string ends with a backslash (/).

Return Value

The return value is the length, in wide characters, of the string copied to lpBuffer, not including the terminating null character. If the return value is greater than nBufferLength, the return value is the size, in characters, of the buffer required to hold the path.

If CeGetTempPathfails, the return value is 0. To determine whether a function failed because of RAPI errors, call CeRapiGetError. To determine whether a function failed because of non-RAPI errors, call CeGetLastError.

Remarks

The CeGetTempPathfunction gets the temporary file path as follows:

  1. The path specified by the TMP environment variable.

  2. The path specified by the TEMP environment variable, if TMP is not defined.

  3. The current directory, if both TMP and TEMP are not defined.

Requirements

Header rapi.h
Library rapi.lib
Windows Embedded CE Windows CE 3.0 and later
Windows Mobile Pocket PC 2000 and later, Smartphone 2002 and later

See Also

Reference

RAPI Functions