Get URL property from file

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Zack Trainor

Does anyone know of a way to get the URL for an Internet
shortcut given that you have the name of the underlying
file. For example, I have a shortcut pointing to
http://www.yahoo.com stored on my C: drive as:
c:\yahoo.url. Within my program, I already know the
filename, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the
URL from it.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks, Zack
 
Zack,
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Internet shortcuts are just INI-style text files, and should be fairly
easy to parse. Open one in your favorite text editor and have a look.

There are APIs for manipulating .URL filed, but they are COM based.



Mattias
 
* "Zack Trainor said:
Does anyone know of a way to get the URL for an Internet
shortcut given that you have the name of the underlying
file. For example, I have a shortcut pointing to
http://www.yahoo.com stored on my C: drive as:
c:\yahoo.url. Within my program, I already know the
filename, but I can't seem to figure out how to get the
URL from it.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!
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Open the file in Notepad and you will see that it is an old-style INI
file. You can use, for example, this class to read the file:

<http://www.mentalis.org/soft/class.qpx?id=6>
 
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