Create shortcuts with the IShellLink Interface in Visual C++

Introduction

The IShellLink interface allows Shell links to be created, modified, and resolved but it has no concept of how to read or write itself to a file on disk.

In order to provide file access, the IShellLink interface required to support the IPersistFile , an interface that provides methods for reading and writing to and from disk.

The source code

BOOL CreateShortCut(CString file , CString shortCut) { IShellLink* pISL; IPersistFile* pIPF; HRESULT hr; hr = CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink,NULL,CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,IID_IShellLink,(void**)&pISL); if(!SUCCEEDED(hr)) { return FALSE; } else { hr = pISL->SetPath(file); if(!SUCCEEDED(hr)) { return FALSE; } else { hr = pISL->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile,(void**)&pIPF); if(SUCCEEDED(hr)) { hr = pIPF->Save(CA2W(shortCut),FALSE); pIPF->Release(); } else { return FALSE; } } pISL->Release(); } return TRUE; }

Using the code

You should call CoInitialize or CoInitializeEx in your application before calling CreateShortCut .This functions initializes the COM library on the current thread and identifies the concurrency model as single-thread apartment (STA). Applications must initialize the COM library before they can call COM library functions other than CoGetMalloc and memory allocation functions.

CoInitialize ( NULL ); CreateShortCut("c:\\inf.log","c:\\ss.lnk");

License

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