.URL file editing

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Hello to everyone,

I have a little question about .URL file (a shortcut file that linked to a web page).

How can I programmatically retrieve the URL from this file using MFC/C++ ?

How can I programmatically write an URL to a file ?

[edit]In explorer, I right click and create new shortcut.
In the first screen I enter an URL text like : http://www.google.com
In the second screen I enter a name for my shortcut like : mylink
After this, I got a file called mylin.url, the .url is not visible in the explorer view.
So, what I want to do is programmatically create/modify/read the URL from such files in MFC/C++
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Posted 27-Jan-11 22:37pm

Mike Marquet

Updated 28-Jan-11 2:27am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan 28-Jan-11 8:28am

Please don't update your question by posting as answer; just edit the question, and leave a comment in the answer you are responding to.

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Solution 1

What do you mean by "retrieve the URL from this file"? Which file are you referring to? If you have the information stored in a text file then you can use the standard library fstream or the MFC CFile to access it.

Posted 27-Jan-11 23:27pm

Richard MacCutchan

Solution 4

Create a text file with content similar to the following:

[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.codeproject.com/

and save it with a ".url" extension.

Posted 28-Jan-11 3:53am

Richard MacCutchan

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2011-01-28T02:33:00

Solution 3

OK, you want to read and write shortcuts, try How to create and resolve a shortcut[^], a nice CodeProject article.

Posted 28-Jan-11 2:33am

Richard MacCutchan