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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Program to create shortcut programatically



int createshotcut(CString csShorcutFile,CString csSourceFile,CString csWorkingDirectory,CString Comments )
{
     CoInitialize( NULL );
    
     IShellLink* psl;
    
     // Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface.
    
     HRESULT hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
         
          IID_IShellLink, (PVOID *) &psl);
    
     if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
         
     {
         
          IPersistFile* ppf;
         
          // Set the path to the shortcut target and add the
         
          // description.
         
          psl->SetPath((LPCSTR) csSourceFile);
         
          psl->SetWorkingDirectory((LPCSTR)csWorkingDirectory);
         
          psl->SetDescription((LPCSTR) Comments );
         
          hres = psl->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile, (PVOID *) &ppf);
         
          if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
              
          {
              
               WORD wsz[MAX_PATH];
              
               MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, (LPCSTR) csShorcutFile, -1, wsz, MAX_PATH);
              
               hres = ppf->Save(wsz, TRUE);
              
               ppf->Release();
              
          }
         
          psl->Release();
         
     }
    
     CoUninitialize();

     return 1;
}


Example:
     createshotcut("c:\\mydairy.lnk","d:\\files\\secret.txt","d:\\","My Notepad Shortcut");

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