url drag and drop

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I want to drag a link from a browser to my application and pick up both the url and the title/name associated with it.
I can read the url easily enough:

C#

object o = data.GetData(typeof(string));
if (o != null)
{
    if (data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Html, true))
    {
       String htmlsnippet = (string)data.GetData(DataFormats.Html);
       processHtml(htmlsnippet); // test code that looks at the html contents
       pasteText((String)o);     // pastes the url into my app - want title too!

The problem is that the html rarely contains the title.
For example www.bbc.co.uk/news
drag this into my app and I see the url
and the htmp snippet is:

HTML

Version:0.9StartHTML:00000145EndHTML:00000282
StartFragment:00000179EndFragment:00000246
SourceURL:chrome://browser/content/browser.xul<html><body>
<!--StartFragment-->
<a href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/\">http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/</a><!--EndFragment-->
</body></html>

However if I drag this link from my browser to my desk top the short-cut is
called 'BBC News - Home'

Similarly try cnn.com and the shortcut is labelled 'CNN.com International -
Breaking, World ...'

Can anyone help me find the title information? I don't want to retrieve the page as this will slow down the drag and drop, and anyway drag to desktop doesn't do this since it works if you go off-line and then drag a link from the browser to desktop.
Thanks.

[Modified: added pre tags...learn to use them, they are your friend!]

Posted 15-Sep-10 5:29am

Chrysogon

Updated 15-Sep-10 6:22am

William Winner

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William Winner · Accepted Answer · 2010-09-15T07:10:00

C#

MemoryStream fgdStream = (MemoryStream)e.Data.GetData("FileGroupDescriptor");
byte[] fgdBytes = new byte[fgdStream.Length];
fgdStream.Read(fgdBytes, 0, fgdBytes.Length);
fgdStream.Close();

StringBuilder fileName = new StringBuilder();

for (int i = 76; i < fgdBytes.Length; i++)
{
    if (fgdBytes[i] != 0)
    {
        fileName.Append(Convert.ToChar(fgdBytes[i]));
    }
    else
    {
        break;
    }
}
MessageBox.Show(fileName.Remove(fileName.Length - 4,4).ToString());

(the Remove part is because the name ends in ".URL")