The "Path" functions in shlwapi.dll are examples of obscure APIs that are incredibly useful. There are dozens of useful functions in there, including PathAppend, PathFileExists, PathFindExtension, and PathFindFileName.
The only problem is that these functions don't play nicely with CString without going through the contortions of GetBuffer/ReleaseBuffer.
Turns out that Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 both include the atlpath.h header file, which includes wrappers for all of the Path functions to make them easy to use with CString. This makes those functions much easier (and much safer) to use.
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