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Create Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to create a symbolic (soft) link.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Chilkat supports symbolic links on both Windows and non-Windows operating systems.
'  Note: On Windows, symbolic links and Windows shortcuts are two different things.
'  On the Windows operating system, a process requires a special privilege to create
'  a symbolic link (unless running as administrator).  

Dim fac As ChilkatFileAccess
fac.Initialize

'  Here we create a symbolic link to point to qa_data/hamlet.xml
'  
Dim target As String = "qa_data/hamlet.xml"
Dim symlink As String = "qa_output/symlink_hamlet.xml"
success = fac.SymlinkCreate(target, symlink)
If success <> True Then
    Log(fac.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Here we create a directory symbolic link.  The target is a directory (not a regular file)
target = "qa_data/xml/"
symlink = "qa_output/xml_dir"
success = fac.SymlinkCreate(target, symlink)
If success <> True Then
    Log(fac.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Log("Success.")