"Juan Lang" juan.lang@gmail.com writes:
There's no need to store a copy of the string. You should load it directly into the destination buffer.
LoadStringW doesn't do what FormatVerisignExtension does: it doesn't SetLastError(ERROR_MORE_DATA) if the buffer is too small. The callers of FormatVerisignExtension call it with a NULL pointer to determine the size.
Sure, that still doesn't mean you need to store a copy of the string, you can just retrieve a pointer to it by setting length to 0.