desktop shortcut

[Mr_Byte]

I need to create a shortcut on the desktop by my program note: I Know nothing about shell programming:confused: thanks in advance MR.Byte

[Deepak Khajuria]

The following code should do:

HRESULT CreateShortcut(LPCSTR pszShortcutFile, LPSTR pszLink,
LPSTR pszDesc)
{
HRESULT hres;
IShellLink* psl;

// Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface.
hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID\_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX\_INPROC\_SERVER,
                        IID\_IShellLink, &psl);
if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
{
   IPersistFile\* ppf;

   // Query IShellLink for the IPersistFile interface for 
   // saving the shell link in persistent storage.
   hres = psl->QueryInterface(IID\_IPersistFile, &ppf);
   if (SUCCEEDED(hres))
   {   
     WORD wsz\[MAX\_PATH\];

     // Set the path to the shell link target.
     hres = psl->SetPath(pszShortcutFile);

     if (!SUCCEEDED(hres))
       AfxMessageBox("SetPath failed!");

     // Set the description of the shell link.
     hres = psl->SetDescription(pszDesc);

     if (!SUCCEEDED(hres))
       AfxMessageBox("SetDescription failed!");

     // Ensure string is ANSI.
     MultiByteToWideChar(CP\_ACP, 0, pszLink, -1, wsz, MAX\_PATH);

     // Save the link via the IPersistFile::Save method.
     hres = ppf->Save(wsz, TRUE);

     // Release pointer to IPersistFile.
     ppf->Release();
   }
   // Release pointer to IShellLink.
   psl->Release();
}
return hres;

}

Deepak Khajuria

[Tommy H D Svensson]

Deepak Khajuria wrote: hres = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IShellLink, &psl); I get an error when giving &psl to CoCreateInstance... the error disappears when I cast it to a void** pointer... but then the call fails... Actually, what my only wish to do is to get the target path of a link and I know the path to the link. Any ideas?