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Windows Vista File Management Issues or questions in relation to Vista's file management. (microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management) |
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How to resolve symbolic links in code?
Hi there,
Short question: How can I resolve the real path of a destination including sympoic links? Scenario: 1.) I install an application under C:\Prgogramma\myapp where c:\Programma is not a physical path. The shortcut created on the desktop also contains this *pseudo* path. 2.) Now if I want to us ::LoadLibrary() with "C:\Programma\myApp\mylib.dll" the call fails because it really tries to load the DLL on this path (which does not exist). Same issue for GetModuleFileName(). Do I have to 'translate' the path into a physical one via another function first? Any ideas? TIA Mue :-) |
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How to resolve symbolic links in code?
Hello,
Are you referring to symbolic links or shell shortcuts? If you mean shell shortcuts, you will need to use the shell API to dereference them: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...s/shortcut.asp If you actually mean symbolic links and junctions, they are decoded for you automatically by the operating system, and you don't have to do anything special in your program to work with them - they look and feel to your program as if they were normal folders. Here is more information on symbolic links / junctions: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...olic_links.asp http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de..._junctions.asp -- - JB |
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