Creating Files

Hey Greg,

No problem! All I needed was a way to make a .web extension shortcut programmatically. Turns out that its a simple JSON file with the url as a variable. I remade it with a C# functions really quickly.

public static string WriteWEBExtension (string URL, string FileName)
        {
            string[] URLLines = { @"{",
                "\t" + ((char)34) + "url" + ((char)34) + ": " + ((char)34) + URL + ((char)34),
                @"}" };
            string path = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();

            if (!path.EndsWith(@"\"))
            {
                path = path + @"\";
            }
            path = path + FileName + ".web";

            System.IO.File.WriteAllLines(path, URLLines);

            return path;

char34 is the double quotations. Hope this helps anyone else.

EDIT: OK... So this is a bit frustrating. Dropbox doesn't treat uploaded files like their own shortcuts. The end result of this is that while .web files do link to the correct URL in the windows explorer, they are treated as "editable" files on upload. If you are trying to send this file over to a friend, it won't automatically link. I've made a writer to URL extension instead.

        public static string WriteWEBExtension (string URL, string FileName)
        {
            string[] URLLines = {
                @"[InternetShortcut]",
                @"IDList=",
                @"URL=" + URL };

            string path = System.IO.Path.GetTempPath();
            if (!path.EndsWith(@"\"))
            {
                path = path + @"\";
            }
            path = path + FileName + ".url";

            System.IO.File.WriteAllLines(path, URLLines);
            return path;
        }