Creating a .lnk file programmatically

[John Spiegel]

Hi all,

How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmatically? I can't seem
to find an appropriate class.

TIA,

John

 

[Peter Rilling]

..LNK files are just that, FILES. There is nothing that says you cannot use
the FileStream to save that file type with the correct format. I don't know
specifically what the format is, but it is rather simple. I believe it is a
text file.

 

[Mattias Sjögren]

John,

How would you go about creating a .lnk file programmatically?

Here's a sample of one way of doing it.

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_shelllink.asp

I can't seem to find an appropriate class.

There's no support for this in the .NET framework, that's probably
why.



Mattias

 

[John Spiegel]

Thanks, Peter. I would've thought so, but at least in the simple editors
I've use, a lot of the characters don't appear as simple text.

 

[John Spiegel]

Thanks, Mattias. I'm looking into it!

John,


Here's a sample of one way of doing it.

http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_shelllink.asp



There's no support for this in the .NET framework, that's probably
why.



Mattias