While creating shortcut slash changes to backslash

Ilya

Hi, all!

Some weird thing happens...
I'm trying to create a shortcut programmaticall y in C#. I need to
create a shortcut with the "target" parameter using slash. Actually
I'm creating a shortcut to a file using command line arguments, smth
like:
"C:\PATH\MyFile .exe" /param1
The problem is that when I create a shortcut the regular slash that
comes before param1 changes to backslash. I checked it in the
debugger. The string that's passed to a function that creates the
shortcut itself has a slash, but the shortcut after creation has
backslash instead. And it ruins the launch of the app because command
line argument is not recognized.
I tried to create a shortcut in 2 ways:
1. Using the code from http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/s..._shelllink.asp.
2. Using shell functions.
Both lead to the same result.

Anybody has idea what can I do?

Thanks in advance,
Ilya

Jun 27 '08 #1

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Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]

Ilya wrote:

Hi, all!

Some weird thing happens...
I'm trying to create a shortcut programmaticall y in C#. I need to
create a shortcut with the "target" parameter using slash. Actually
I'm creating a shortcut to a file using command line arguments, smth
like:
"C:\PATH\MyFile .exe" /param1

Did you put all of that in the shortcut target? The "/param1" part needs to
be put into the arguments field instead.

The problem is that when I create a shortcut the regular slash that
comes before param1 changes to backslash. I checked it in the
debugger. The string that's passed to a function that creates the
shortcut itself has a slash, but the shortcut after creation has
backslash instead. And it ruins the launch of the app because command
line argument is not recognized.
I tried to create a shortcut in 2 ways:
1. Using the code from
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/s..._shelllink.asp.
2. Using shell functions.
Both lead to the same result.

Anybody has idea what can I do?

Thanks in advance,
Ilya

Jun 27 '08 #2

Ilya

On Apr 21, 7:36 pm, "Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <r...@nospam.no spamwrote:

Ilya wrote:
Hi, all!

Some weird thing happens...
I'm trying to create a shortcut programmaticall y in C#. I need to
create a shortcut with the "target" parameter using slash. Actually
I'm creating a shortcut to a file using command line arguments, smth
like:
"C:\PATH\MyFile .exe" /param1

Did you put all of that in the shortcut target? The "/param1" part needs to
be put into the arguments field instead.

The problem is that when I create a shortcut the regular slash that
comes before param1 changes to backslash. I checked it in the
debugger. The string that's passed to a function that creates the
shortcut itself has a slash, but the shortcut after creation has
backslash instead. And it ruins the launch of the app because command
line argument is not recognized.
I tried to create a shortcut in 2 ways:
1. Using the code from
http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/s..._shelllink.asp.
2. Using shell functions.
Both lead to the same result.

Anybody has idea what can I do?

Thanks in advance,
Ilya

Hi, Ben!

Thanks a lot for your reply.
Tried the arguments section and it worked perfectly!

Ilya

Jun 27 '08 #3

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