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How to programmatically find target of a shortcut.
I would lilke to, in a VB program, VB script, or any other way, find the target of a shortcut. My experience with VBScript FileSystemObject & VB FileSystemObject is that shortcuts are not supported. (Not even the filetype code for shortcuts is supported.) If that is not correct, I would like...- JRJohnston
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- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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How to open a shortcut file & determine the target?
In VB6, how does one open a shortcut file & determine its target? If this is not possible in VB, how does one do it in C or C++? Are there API calls relevant to this? Thanks! Jim- JRJohnston
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- Forum: Visual Basic (Classic)
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VBScript file object and Alias (shortcut) files. Bug, & read issue.
I would like to follow a link/shotrcut to the source file in VBScript. First, note there is a bug in VBScript: for alias/shortcut files, the file attribute value does not include the specified bit corresponding to value of 1024. However, .Type returns "Shortcut". [.ReadAll returns...- JRJohnston
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- Forum: VBScript
