/// <summary>
/// Retrieves all defined aliases for the specified executable.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="ExeName">The executable file whose aliases are to be retrieved.</param>
/// <returns>Returns a NameValueCollection that contains the source and target
/// (replacement) strings for all defined aliases.</returns>
public static NameValueCollection GetAliases(string ExeName)
{
int length = GetAliasesLength(ExeName);
NameValueCollection aliases = new NameValueCollection();
if (length > 0)
{
char[] buff = new char[length];
if (WinCon.GetConsoleAliases(buff, length, ExeName) == 0)
{
throw new IOException("Unable to retrieve alias strings", Marshal.GetLastWin32Error());
}
// The returned buffer contains a series of nul-terminated strings
// of the form source=target\0source=target\0
// Parse the strings and add them to the aliases collection.
int startIndex = 0;
string source = "";
string target = "";
bool bSource = true;
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
if (bSource)
{
// searching for source string
if (buff[i] == '=')
{
source = new string(buff, startIndex, i - startIndex);
startIndex = i + 1;
bSource = false;
}
}
else
{
// searching for target string
if (buff[i] == '\0')
{
target = new string(buff, startIndex, i - startIndex);
startIndex = i + 1;
aliases.Add(source, target);
bSource = true;
}
}
}
}
return(aliases);
}
