Creating Shortcuts

If you want to directly create shortcuts with your program, you can use the following code fragment:

(it is taken from the "ln -s" command of ntsh.) 

// important lines are marked with /***/

         // symbolic link
        IShellLink* psl; 
 
        CString strPath;
        if (m_args[2].Find(':')==-1)
        {
            GetFullPathName(m_args[2], MAX_PATH, strPath.GetBuffer(MAX_PATH), NULL);
            strPath.ReleaseBuffer();
        }
        // don't try to get full name with internet addresses
        else strPath = m_args[2];

        // Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface. 
        HRESULT hres;
/***/   CoInitialize(NULL);
/***/   hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, 
/***/       CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IShellLink, (void**)&psl); 
        if ((SUCCEEDED(hres) &&
            (psl->SetPath(strPath) == NOERROR) && 
            (psl->SetDescription(m_args[3]) == NOERROR)))
        {
            // Query IShellLink for the IPersistFile interface for saving the 
            // shortcut in persistent storage. 
            IPersistFile* ppf;
/***/       hres = psl->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile, (void**)&ppf); 
 
            if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
            {
                // Ensure that the string is wide char
#ifdef _UNICODE
                CString wsz = m_args[3]+".lnk";
#else
                WCHAR wsz[MAX_PATH]; 
                MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, m_args[3]+".lnk", -1, 
                    wsz, MAX_PATH); 
#endif
                // Save the link by calling IPersistFile::Save. 
                TRACE("Creating symbolic link in %s.lnk\n", m_args[3]);
/***/           hres = ppf->Save(wsz, TRUE); 
/***/           ppf->Release(); 
                bSuccess = SUCCEEDED(hres);
            } 
/***/       psl->Release();
        }
/***/   CoUninitialize();
You are free to use it in your own programs

Martin Waitz
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