Email Course: Shell Programming with Delphi: 3. Shortcuts

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Email Course: Shell Programming with Delphi 3. Shortcuts From Zarko Gajic, your Guide to Delphi Programming Windows shortcut is a special type of file linked to another object. We can think of a shortcut as a pointer to an object, it permits us to access a file or application without having to navigate to it on our hard drive. Creating shortcuts with Delphi Shortcuts are extremely useful and are the primary mechanism you can use to customize your desktop to give yourself quick access to the applications, documents, and Internet resources you use most often. Shortcut target finder A sample Delphi application, with full source code, that can be used to locate all the shortcut files (.LNK) on a drive (directory) and find the target that is executed by a shortcut How to create an Internet Shortcut (.URL) file Unlike regular .LNK shortcuts (that point to a document or an application), Internet Shortcuts point to an URL (web document). Here's how to create an .URL file, Internet Shortcut, using Delphi. How to extract the URL from an Internet Shortcut (.url) file Here's how to read the URL from an Internet Shortcut file using Delphi code. This email is written by: Zarko Gajic Delphi Programming Guide Email Me | My Blog | My Forum   Missing a lesson? Click here. About U. is our collection of free online courses designed to help you learn a new skill, solve a problem, get something done, or just learn more about your world. Sign up now, and we will email you lessons on a daily or weekly basis. You are receiving this email because you subscribed to the About.com 'Email Course: Shell Programming with Delphi' email. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. About respects your privacy: Our Privacy Policy Contact Information: 249 West 17th Street New York, NY, 10011 © 2010 About.com   Advertisement

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