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Hi,

I am wanting my program to be able to create a shortcut. How is this done?
At the moment i have the shortcut created and copy it to the location i
need. This is a bit inflexable.

any help?

many thanks

Arran
Nov 15 '05 #1
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Arran,
I am wanting my program to be able to create a shortcut. How is this done?


Do you mean a file shortcut (as opposed to for example a keyboard
shortcut)? If so, here's one way to do it

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

Mattias

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Nov 15 '05 #2
yes that was what i meant....thanks for link.

Arran

"Mattias Sjögren" <ma********************@mvps.org> wrote in message
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Arran,
I am wanting my program to be able to create a shortcut. How is this
done?
Do you mean a file shortcut (as opposed to for example a keyboard
shortcut)? If so, here's one way to do it

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

Mattias

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

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