How to use shbrowseforfolder and shgetpathfromidlist when user clicks on a application on start menu or desktop?

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I have a c++ application that creates shortcut in desktop and start menu.When the user right clicks on the shortcut it will create the corresponding context-menus.I am completely new to shell programming so can anybody help me regarding how to use shell functions to determine the location of application in the disk (like C:/blah/blah/Startmenu or C:/blah/blah/Desktop).

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I have read articles about using SHBrowseForFolder and SHGetPathFromIDList for this approach. But could not find any leads.

Posted 11-Jun-16 5:40am

DSomesh

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Richard MacCutchan 11-Jun-16 12:03pm

The location is stored in the shortcut.

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