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Creating a .lnk file programmaticall y

Hi all,

How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmaticall y? I can't seem
to find an appropriate class.

TIA,

John
Nov 15 '05 #1
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..LNK files are just that, FILES. There is nothing that says you cannot use
the FileStream to save that file type with the correct format. I don't know
specifically what the format is, but it is rather simple. I believe it is a
text file.

"John Spiegel" <js******@YETAN OTHERSPAMHATERc-comld.com> wrote in message
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Hi all,

How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmaticall y? I can't seem to find an appropriate class.

TIA,

John

Nov 15 '05 #2
John,
How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmaticall y?
Here's a sample of one way of doing it.

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/s..._shelllink.asp

I can't seem to find an appropriate class.


There's no support for this in the .NET framework, that's probably
why.

Mattias

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Nov 15 '05 #3
Thanks, Peter. I would've thought so, but at least in the simple editors
I've use, a lot of the characters don't appear as simple text.

"Peter Rilling" <pe***@nospam.r illing.net> wrote in message
news:uP******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP12.phx.gbl...
.LNK files are just that, FILES. There is nothing that says you cannot use the FileStream to save that file type with the correct format. I don't know specifically what the format is, but it is rather simple. I believe it is a text file.

"John Spiegel" <js******@YETAN OTHERSPAMHATERc-comld.com> wrote in message
news:OW******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...
Hi all,

How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmaticall y? I can't

seem
to find an appropriate class.

TIA,

John


Nov 15 '05 #4
Thanks, Mattias. I'm looking into it!

"Mattias Sjögren" <ma************ ********@mvps.o rg> wrote in message
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John,
How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmaticall y?


Here's a sample of one way of doing it.

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/s..._shelllink.asp

I can't seem to find an appropriate class.


There's no support for this in the .NET framework, that's probably
why.

Mattias

--
Mattias Sjögren [MVP] mattias @ mvps.org
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

Nov 15 '05 #5

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