How do I avoid name collision with macros defined in Windows header files?

Question

I have some C++ code that includes a method called CreateDirectory(). Previously the code only used STL and Boost, but I recently had to include

Answer 1

You could create a module whose sole purpose is to #include and look up CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA wrapped in a function.

int get_CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA(void)
{
    return CSIDL_LOCAL_APPDATA;
}

btw, Well done for working out what happened!