Overview of RAPI Functions

Many of the RAPI functions are directly equivalent to their Windows CE counterparts and therefore do not warrant a detailed description. There are, however, some general points to remember when calling these functions:

  • Use CeRapiGetError as described above to determine errors.

  • Call CeCloseHandle to close handles returned from functions such as CeCreateProcess and CeCreateFile.

  • Use CeFindClose to close a handle returned from CeFindFirstFile.

  • Call CeRapiFreeBuffer to free buffers returned from CeReadRecordProps.

The following sections list the RAPI functions by group, together with a brief description of their purpose.

File and Folder Manipulation

RAPI provides a complete set of functions for manipulating files and folders ...

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