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How to add a shortcut to the desktop from an console application?

Hi,

Does anybody knows how to add a shortcut to the desktop from an console
application in different versions of windows system from 98 ?

Thanks and best regards
Gilles

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Nov 20 '05 #1
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Hello,

"Gilles LAMBERT" <we*******@tutorials-online.com> schrieb:
Does anybody knows how to add a shortcut to the desktop
from an console application in different versions of windows
system from 98 ?


Untested:

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

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Nov 20 '05 #2

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