How to manage *.lnk files

How to manage *.lnk files

• nilsandrey

  Unfortunately, there's no managed wrapper for dealing with links. You could either use p/invoke to call into the shell API or, if you're not comfortable with p/invoke, there's a COM wrapper (WshShortcut) available in the Windows Script Host library.

  
  

• DemianRulEZ

  The problem probably lies with how you're creating the shortcut object. It shouldn't be instantiated directly. Instead, you should call the CreateShortcut method of the WshShell object (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp url=/library/en-us/script56/html/d91b9d23-a7e5-4ec2-8b55-ef6ffe9c777d.asp). e.g.:

  private void Form1_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
  {
  if (e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop) != null)
  {
  string[] files = (string[])e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop);

  WshShell shell = new WshShellClass();
  WshShortcut shortcut = (WshShortcut)shell.CreateShortcut(files[0]);
  
  MessageBox.Show(shortcut.TargetPath);
  }
  }

  
  

• John Scragg

  Thanks you very much, it is perfect !!!!

  

  
  

• Emilian

  Thanks !

  Anyone knows if there is plans for this in .Net 2.0 or even further in the future

  I made a small project using the interop and I get this error:

  "COM object with CLSID {A548B8E4-51D5-4661-8824-DAA1D893DFB2} is either not valid or not registered."

  Using a small webform that receives drag and drop :

  private void Form1_DragDrop(object sender, System.Windows.Forms.DragEventArgs e)

  {

  if (e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop) != null)

  {

  string sResult = string.Empty;

  IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShortcutClass oShortCut = null;

  try

  {

  // Error occurs on that line !

  string[] files = (string[])e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.FileDrop);

  oShortCut = new IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShortcutClass();

  oShortCut.Load( files[0] );

  sResult = oShortCut.IconLocation;

  }

  catch(Exception ex)

  {

  sResult = ex.Message;

  }

  MessageBox.Show(sResult);

  }

  }

  Is the p/invoke method straightforward

  Thanks for your help,

  Claude

  
  
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