Help needed: How create a link/shortcut within .NET

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PitG - 11 Aug 2007 12:10 GMT

i have to create from within a kind of setup program (with admin rights) a
shortcut to the desktop of a users pointing to a UNC path .

searching of something like: shortcut <from file> <to path> < working
directory>

is there a class within the framework - i may have missed :-) - capable to
provide the functionality?

regards

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Mattias Sjögren - 12 Aug 2007 23:21 GMT

>i have to create from within a kind of setup program (with admin rights) a
>shortcut to the desktop of a users pointing to a UNC path .

What's a "kind of setup program"? If you're using MSI it should have
built in support for creating shortcuts.

Mattias

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PitG - 13 Aug 2007 09:32 GMT

Hi Mattias,

There is no chance for using MSI in this case.

I am just looking for a .NET class providing this link feature for
filesystem objects.
(I am avare of the Windows API - but try hard to avoid using it!)

Regards PitG

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> >i have to create from within a kind of setup program (with admin rights) a
> >shortcut to the desktop of a users pointing to a UNC path .
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