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Shortcuts makes it easy for users to launch applications. Shortcut files have \u201c.lnk\u201d extension and they take up very little storage space. Shortcuts contain information about the application to launch along with any parameter information. They are really handy if predetermined values need to be passed to the application as command line parameters.<\/p>\n

How to create a Shortcut on the device<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Run Microsoft ActiveSync on your desktop and establish connection with the PDA.
\n– Right-click on the ActiveSync icon on the desktop Windows taskbar and Click Explore. This will bringup a window showing contents of Mobile Device folder
\n– Now goto the folder where the executable resides
\n– Rightclick on the file (say ABC.exe) and a menu pops up. Select Create Shortcut menu item
\n– This will generate a shortcut (.lnk) file with the name like \u201cShortcut to ABC.exe\u201d
\n– You can rename the shortcut to anything that you like
\n– Move or copy the shortcut if you want it anywhere else on the device<\/p>\n

How shortcuts work (Tech stuff for developers)<\/strong><\/p>\n

This section describes the format of a shortcut file. Simply copy the .lnk file to the desktop and open it in your favorite text editor. I use Notepad. The content in the .lnk file will have the following format.<\/p>\n

xx#\u201d{APPLICATION_PATH}{OPTIONAL PARAMETERS}\u201d<\/p>\n

where xx is number of characters in the above text excluding xx#.<\/p>\n

For e.g.<\/p>\n

18#\u201dWindowsabc.exe\u201d<\/p>\n

where 18 is the count of characters after pound character (#) and Windowsabc.exe is the target application.<\/p>\n

To create a shortcut from your application use SHCreateShortcut<\/strong> API.<\/p>\n

Sample Code: (Courtesy MSDN)<\/p>\n

\nBOOL SHCreateShortcutExample()
\n{
\n\/\/ Create a shortcut called myAppShortcut.lnk,
\n\/\/ that links to the target file in \\, named myApp.exe.
\n\/\/ Place the shortcut in the folder Windows.
\nreturn SHCreateShortcut(TEXT(“\\Windows\\myAppShortcut.lnk”), TEXT(“\\myApp.exe”));
\n}<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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