path to Desktop and Icon changing for a file

[Raywall]

Please tell me how can I get the path to Desktop(I want to create a shortcut from code) and also how can I change the icon for that shortcut(or any other file). I'm using plain API but if you know how to do these in MFC it'll be ok(though I don't like MFC that much).

 

[PerFnurt]

Note, the Desktop isn't a folder in the common sense, its a namespace object (infact, its the root of the namespace hierarchy).

See the 'Creating a Shortcut to a Nonfile Object' section in

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d.../shell_int_programming/shortcuts/shortcut.asp

/Per

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[Raywall]

Sorry I was saying that I would want to create a shortcut on the desktop, not a shortcut to the desktop(my mistake). It will be an internet shortcut(I will create a file with the proper extension and content...that will do) and I must change the icon for that shortcut. The problem is that I don't know the path to the desktop and I don't know other way to create a file other then specifying the path...
Sorry I wasn't clear from the begining.