Re: How do you FIND a desktop shortcut in VB?

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From: Jeff Johnson [MVP: VB] (i.get_at_enough.spam)
Date: 03/19/04 

Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 14:25:13 -0500

"Don Jones" <DonJ@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> The problem with all of the Create Functions is that none of them
> open the .lnk file and parse out the fields. If you manually type
> out the file, you'll see some text mixed in with the binary data.
> It would help if I could find the data structure for the file.

It appears that you need to use the IShellLink interface to read the data in
a shortcut. Then you use its Getxxx methods to find what you're looking for.
I'm afraid this is a bit beyond me, however, so I can't get more specific
than that.

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