How to use IFileOperation CopyItems for a destination ZIP file - c++

Question

I am using IFileOperation interface's CopyItems method to copy one more files from source folder to a destination folder. This works without any error as long as the destination folder is a standard file system directory. However, my main motivation of using IFileOperation instead of SHFileOperation() method is to allow copying items from / into non-file-system objects as the documentation says (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/bb775771%28v=vs.85%29.aspx).
The following code works perfectly for file-system destination e.g. "g:\my folder" but does not work if the destination is a ZIP file e.g. "g:\Super Cars.zip". For this quick sample please overlook the resource leaks :).
Please note the ZIP file is an existing ZIP file created using standard built-in ZIP capability of Windows and it does not contain the file is am trying to copy.
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <Windows.h>
#include <shellapi.h>
#include <Shlobj.h>
#include <iostream>
#include <atlbase.h>
void CopyFile(LPCTSTR strSource, LPCTSTR strDestination)
{
PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE abSourcePidl = nullptr;
SFGAOF attrs;
HRESULT hr = SHParseDisplayName(strSource, nullptr, &abSourcePidl, 0, &attrs);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("SHParseDisplayName failed for ") << strSource << std::endl;
return;
}
PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE abDestPidl = nullptr;
hr = SHParseDisplayName(strDestination, nullptr, &abDestPidl, 0, &attrs);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("SHParseDisplayName failed for ") << strDestination << std::endl;
return;
}
IShellItem2* pDestShellItem;
hr = SHCreateItemFromIDList(abDestPidl, IID_IShellItem2, reinterpret_cast<LPVOID*>(&pDestShellItem));
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("SHCreateItemFromIDList failed") << std::endl;
return;
}
PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE* pPidlRawArray = new PIDLIST_ABSOLUTE[1];
pPidlRawArray[0] = abSourcePidl;
IShellItemArray* pShellItemArr = nullptr;
hr = SHCreateShellItemArrayFromIDLists(1, (LPCITEMIDLIST*)pPidlRawArray, &pShellItemArr);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("SHCreateShellItemArrayFromIDLists failed") << std::endl;
return;
}
CComPtr<IFileOperation> fileOp;
hr = fileOp.CoCreateInstance(CLSID_FileOperation);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("Creation of IFileOperation failed") << std::endl;
return;
}
hr = fileOp->CopyItems(pShellItemArr, pDestShellItem);
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("CopyItems fall failed") << std::endl;
return;
}
hr = fileOp->PerformOperations();
if (FAILED(hr))
{
std::wcout << _T("PerformOperations call failed") << std::endl;
return;
}
std::wcout << _T("File copied successfully") << std::endl;
}
int _tmain(int argc, _TCHAR* argv[])
{
CoInitialize(NULL);
CopyFile(_T("D:\\TEMP\\COMTIME.TXT"), _T("G:\\My Folder")); // WORKS!!
CopyFile(_T("D:\\TEMP\\COMTIME.TXT"), _T("G:\\Super Cars.zip")); // DOES NOT WORK!!
CoUninitialize();
return 0;
}