Persist a pidl (ITEMIDLIST)

Question

I\'d like to persist pidls between sessions, so that my application can remember the users\' folder selections, wherever they may be in the namespace, even if they\'re not f

Answer 1

ILSaveToStream and ILLoadFromStream (and possibly ILLoadFromStreamEx). There is one caveat though: ILLoadFromStream and ILLoadFromStreamEx are deprecated, and if Microsoft has said what's supposed to replace them, I'm not aware of it.