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Win7 namespace extension determine if IShellItem is file or folder

Feb 26, 2014 See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

You can use the IShellItem::GetAttributes method, like this:

SFGAOF att = 0;
if (SUCCEEDED(pItem->GetAttributes(SFGAO_FOLDER, &att))) // pItem is a IShellItem*
{
    if (att & SFGAO_FOLDER)
    {
        // it's a folder
    }
}
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