C# Signature:

    [DllImport("kernel32", SetLastError = true)]
    static extern uint GetConsoleAliasesLength(
        string ExeName
        );

[DllImport("Kernel32.dll")]

public static extern uint GetConsoleAliases(StringBuilder lpTargetBuffer, uint targetBufferLength, string lpExeName);

VB Signature:

Declare Function GetConsoleAliasesLength Lib "kernel32.dll" (TODO) As TODO
Declare Function GetConsoleAliases Lib "kernel32.dll" (TODO) As TODO

User-Defined Types:

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Notes:

// Untested, added during 1-pass copy & paste of windows console fuctions

The problem I'm having with this function is that it fills the buffer with the alias strings concatenated together with \0 (null) as the delimiter.

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