[c#] Accessing the target path of a shortcut (*.lnk)?

[Dj_Jestar]

I've been banging my head on my desk for ten minutes. I'm simply trying to find the target path of a shortcut file. I have seen examples that read the .lnk as a binary and parse the data, but I'd rather hope there was a more standard, higher level way of doing this. In semi-pseudo I just want to be able to:

ShortcutFile file = new ShortcutFile("c:\dir\shortcut.lnk");
String target = file.TargetPath;

but it seems this is not the case.

I've looked around MSDN and google for sometime and the closest I got was Windows Scripting Object COM library (IWshRuntimeLibrary) but it spits the fallback COM error (the defacto "'unknown error' error")

Help?!

 

[Dj_Jestar]

"Cannot create instance of the abstract class or interface 'IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShell'"

Which version of the runtime are you using, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Vista 64 Business, VS2008, .NET 3.5

 

[Dj_Jestar]

I've got all those.. that particular error was because I have to use WshShellClass(), rather than WshShell() - which is why I asked the version.

I'm also accessing the file across the network.. so the filename is \\server\share\file.lnk format.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

and my head banging continues :/

Which version of the library is shown in the references dialogue window, if you don't mind? Mine is showing as 1.0.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

Does it work from a mapped drive?

No. :/

 

[Dj_Jestar]

ffs.. this was a real PEBKAC, I wasn't including the .lnk on the extension.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

er.. yeah *ahem*