[shell-coding] Re: Running IShellLinks

Hey,

> It obviously uses the PIDL. It works but still has a few drawbacks. For
> example, it doesn't set sei.dwHotkey appropriately. SW_SHOWNORMAL isn't
> right either, it should use IShellLink::GetShowCmd.
>
> Do I have to get all that from IShellLink, or is there a function which
> encapsulates that? In short, is there a function to execute IShellLinks?
> Is ShellExecuteEx the way to go? Or what about
> IContextMenu::InvokeCommand? I want a function which uses all of the
> information IShellLink provides to launch the application that is linked
> to.

If there is a function, I'm not aware of it.  I wrote a helper function
that parses the IShellLink extracting the various pieces of information
and passes it to ShellExecuteEx.

Chris



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