Reading From a Shortcut

[BlindSniper]

Does Anyone know a Way of reading from a Shortcut File (.lnk) ? or Does anyone know the Format of shortcuts (.lnk). I have Tried the windows script host object model COM Component But I can't Get It To Work.

Thanks in Advance,
BlindSniper

[kareninstructor]

Can you show us your code?

[BlindSniper]

I followed quite a few examples on the net and you couldn't even paste the code into Visual studio without getting errors and I looked around in the component there was nothing i could make heads or tails of but i'll try And Paste code in a few Minutes

[BlindSniper]

OK i Figured out how to create A shortcut But that Doesn't help a lot (yet). I need to read all the data from an existing shortcut which isn't possible with the windows script host object model(as far as i can see).

[kareninstructor]

OK i Figured out how to create A shortcut But that Doesn't help a lot (yet). I need to read all the data from an existing shortcut which isn't possible with the windows script host object model(as far as i can see).

Hang in there I am uploading one for you.

[kareninstructor]

The attached project uses code from another developer to read/write shortcuts. I created the project in VS2005 and just upgraded it to VS2008, tested it as is on Windows Vista.

Try it out, it will recurse thru the start menu, quick launch and desktop looking at all shortcuts and logging the information to a textfile which is opened after the recursive ops are done. Empty shortcuts are ignored, ability to change is commented out. About the only issue I can think of is authority to read the files which I didn't have issues with on Windows XP or Vista.

The key to read a shortcut with the code used

        Dim Shortcut As MSjogren.Samples.ShellLink.VB.ShellShortcut = _
            New MSjogren.Samples.ShellLink.VB.ShellShortcut(FileName)

Where FileName is the full path and shortcut file name concatenated together.

[BlindSniper]

Thanks Will Give it a try

[kareninstructor]

Thanks Will Give it a try

Make sure to explore the code modules as there is more there than I demo'd possible.

[BlindSniper]

Ok I got It Working Thank you very much! . One More little Off Topic Question : Wouldn't it be easier to just read the bytes from the shortcut and Populate the properties from there ? It Seems a Bit overkill as it is But i'm not complaining It works

[kareninstructor]

Ok I got It Working Thank you very much! . One More little Off Topic Question : Wouldn't it be easier to just read the bytes from the shortcut and Populate the properties from there ? It Seems a Bit overkill as it is But i'm not complaining It works

Well let's put it this way, the code offers a lot which is no different than internal libraries. Good to hear the code worked for you.