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  10 years ago

  by Developer Fusion Bot

  Developer Fusion Bot

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  7 years ago

  by Bharatvohra

  Bharat Vohra

  , United States

  Joined 7 years ago
  I used the code for "Create a shortcut"  given on http://www.vbweb.co.uk/show/245/ . I made it DLL so that i call the dll in my ASP page. But when i'm calling the DLL  in ASP page , i'm getting the following error
  ----------------ERROR--------------------------------
  Error Type:
  Microsoft VBScript runtime (0x800A000D)
  Type mismatch: 'CreateShortcut'
  /index1.asp, line 25
  
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  I'm using the following code in ASP
  
  strpath="http://server2000/index.asp"
  strname="index"
  set desk=server.CreateObject("Desktop.Shortcut")
  
  CreateShortcut=desk.CreateShortcut(strpath,strname,CSIDL_DOCUMENTS)
  
  
  where "Desktop" is name of the project and "Shortcut" is classname
  
  Pls if anybody has the clue abt the error i'm facing then pls help me out..
  
  Thanx
  Bharat
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  6 years ago

  by fei

  fei

  , United States

  Joined 6 years ago

  how to get target info (name, location ...) of a shorcut file?

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  4 years ago

  by hollering

  Eric Hollering

  Indiana, US, India

  Joined 4 years ago
  I need to be able to change the "Start In" field of a shortcut with VBA so that I can automatically create shortcuts for users using AccessRT.  Can anyone suggest a way to do this?  By the way, great code, had to play with it a little to get it to work with Access 97, but it works great!
  
  Update:  Also, I noticed that you cannot put complicated strings in as the target path.  For instance, I would want to change the target to the following:
  
  "C:\Program Files\AccessRT\Office\msaccess.exe" "\\NetworkDrive\SomeDir\SomeAccessFile.mdb" /runtime
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  1 year ago

  by Insanity's

  Ali Yürekli

  , Turkey

  Joined 1 year ago
  Hi James... I have tried your posted code to produce a shortcut, as I’m new to Visual Studio, sadly I didn’t understand the short description… and just copying and pasting the longer ‘complicated’ code threw up so many errors I deleted it all again. My guess is that neither of these solutions are directly applicable to Visual Studio. These days I only write programs for my own amusement and usually only when I need a utility of some sort. In my case most of the enjoyment of programming is working out how to achieve an object. Currently I would like to be able to create shortcuts for selected files in a folder, since a right click on a file in Windows Explorer can produce a pop up list with an option to create a shortcut, I have to assume there’s an inbuilt facility that I ought to be able to access. I would love to know which facility to use and what parameters are needed and possibly some hint as to how to call it; rather than code for a specific job. This information would I think, then useful to whatever language the reader is using.
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