Decode link from an .LNK file

[rob]

There must be an easy way to extract the actual path from an .LNK file
in C#. Has anyone done this?

 

[Michael Nemtsev]

Hello Rob,

See there http://www.msjogren.net/dotnet/eng/samples/dotnet_shelllink.asp

R> There must be an easy way to extract the actual path from an .LNK
R> file in C#. Has anyone done this?

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[Gordon Smith \(eMVP\)]

There must be an easy way to extract the actual path from an .LNK file
in C#. Has anyone done this?

Why not use the IShellLink API?

--Gordon Smith (eMVP)