C++ WinAPI: handling long file paths/names

Question

I\'m looking at handling longer file paths in my windows application.

Currently, I have a text box (edit box) in which a user can type an absolute file path. I then

Answer 1

No, because if you get a longer path, Windows can't accept it. So while technically, you could hold more chars than that in your buffer, you could never actually use the filepath result.