How to get icons of shortcuts(.lnk) without error?

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by: TC | last post by:

I know .NET setup projects use "Windows Installer" shortcuts instead of ordinary shortcuts, but I'm having trouble with those, so I'd like to hard-code some ordinary shortcuts in the user's start menu. The problem is, the setup project will let me put every kind of file in the start menu except .lnk files. The one file type I need is the one file type which seems to be rejected. Perhaps there is some trick I don't know about. For the...

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Is there anyone who knows how to parse a windows shortcut (lnk file) on the start menu? How hard could it be, it is just a few values, like Target file, Icon file... I search for in on Internet for a while, but I did not found anything. So what I want is the sourse code for a shortcut parser, written in VB.net if possible (C# would be ok), or at least the specification for how a shortcut (LNK file) is build, so I can writ one myself. ...

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