Creating Shortcuts

[VladimirHorowitz]

Can someone show me the way to create a shortcut to the file eg "c:\test.exe"
and place it in the folder eg "c:\"? (programmatically). Example in vb.net i
need, but either in c# or j# are accepted.

Tnx

[Dave]

I needed that functionality and couldn't find any built-in to the framework, so I used the WSH shell library:

IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShortcut

(Import "IWshRuntimeLibrary" from the COM tab of "Add Reference...")

It worked for me ;)

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Can someone show me the way to create a shortcut to the file eg "c:\test.exe"
and place it in the folder eg "c:\"? (programmatically). Example in vb.net i
need, but either in c# or j# are accepted.

Tnx

[Mattias Sjögren]

>Can someone show me the way to create a shortcut to the file eg "c:\test.exe"

and place it in the folder eg "c:\"? (programmatically). Example in vb.net i
need, but either in c# or j# are accepted.

In addition to Dave's suggestion, here's another way to do it

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

Mattias

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