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How do I get the full path for the target of a shortcut file?

December 23, 2011 Dec 23, 2011 12/23/11

Raymond Chen

A customer was having trouble obtaining information from a shortcut file. "Here is a sample program that tries to print the target of a shortcut file, but it only gets the file name without a directory. How do I get the full path?" Recall that the structure contains only a file name in the member. It doesn't have any path information. ...