🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm using IPersistFile::Load to find the target of a "lnk" file. My
code is as follows (full code at bottom):

   IShellLink *psl;
   if (SUCCEEDED(CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IShellLink, (void **)&psl)))
   {
      LPPERSISTFILE lppf;
      if (SUCCEEDED(psl->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile,
reinterpret_cast<void **>(&lppf))))
      {
          wchar_t wIconPath[MAX_PATH + 1];
          StringToWString(linkPath, wIconPath);

          if (SUCCEEDED(lppf->Load(wIconPath, STGM_READ)))


It works fine, unless the file the link points to does not exist...
anyone have any tip on how to catch the resulting error message. I run
the app as a console app, and following error message comes as a
dialog box:

       "The drive or network connection that the shortcut 'xxx' refers
to referst to is unavailable" ....


Anyone knows how to prevent the error message from appearing?

Thanks!
/sten



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string GetLinkTarget(const char* linkPath, bool coinit) 
{
   string retVal;
   if (coinit)
   {
      CoInitialize(NULL);
   }

   IShellLink *psl;
   if (SUCCEEDED(CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL,
CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, IID_IShellLink, (void **)&psl)))
   {
      LPPERSISTFILE lppf;
      if (SUCCEEDED(psl->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile,
reinterpret_cast<void **>(&lppf))))
      {
          wchar_t wIconPath[MAX_PATH + 1];
          StringToWString(linkPath, wIconPath);   // my own function

          if (SUCCEEDED(lppf->Load(wIconPath, STGM_READ)))
          {
              if (SUCCEEDED(psl->Resolve(NULL, SLR_ANY_MATCH)))
              {
                  WIN32_FIND_DATA wfd;
                  char filename[MAX_PATH];
                  if (SUCCEEDED(psl->GetPath(filename, MAX_PATH,
                                             &wfd, SLGP_UNCPRIORITY)))
                  {
                      retVal = filename;
                  }
              }
          }
          lppf->Release();
      }
      psl->Release();
   }
    
   if (coinit)
   {
	  CoUninitialize();
   }
   return retVal;
}


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