GetLinkTarget Function

For a given shell link (.LNK file), this function returns the full path of the target of this link. If the given file is not a link file, or the target could not be retrieved, an empty string is returned.

Syntax

Pascal

function GetLinkTarget(const filepath: UnicodeString): UnicodeString;

File

ShellBrowser

Returns

The target path of a shell link.

Example

var target: TFilename; ... target := GetLinkTarget('C:test.LNK'); ... target := GetLinkTarget('C:Documents and Settingsuser1NethoodDocuments at Server2');

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