Re: how to get path,file name from shortcut lnk file,help

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From: Stephen
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 00:00

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Paul Norrish <pnorrish@home.com> wrote in message
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> Before opening a file I have to find out its name and location, because in
> some cases the user selects a shortcut file (*.lnk) instead of the data
file
> itself.
>
> When I fire the Open statement with the *.lnk filename I don't get the
> target file opened but the shortcut only.
>
> Is there some kind of "indirect open" statement, solving the shortcut? Or
is
> there an API to solve the shortcut, i.e. with the lnk filename as an
> argument and returning the target filename?
>
> Somewhere I found a format description of "The Windows Shortcut File
Format
> as reverse-engineered by Jesse Hager" which I will use if there is no
easier
> way.

Are you using the Common Dialog Control? If so, IIRC, there is a property
called DereferenceShellLinks which will do this for you.

HTH
Stephen

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Date: 2000/02/09
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