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Easy Link File Viewer Change Log 📋

v1.6.2 (current) 🆕

🛠️ Fixes:

  • The shortcut's window state attribute (normal, maximized, minimized) was not being properly recognized. Solves Issue #14

🌟 Improvements:

  • Added keyboard shortcuts to toolbar items, thanks to @BenVlodgi's contribution.

v1.6.1 🔄

🛠️ Fixes:

  • An user settings conflict that caused an unhandled exception when trying to persist the property grid view mode.

v1.6 🔄

🚀 New Features:

  • Added experimental support to read/write Windows Installer link files. Solves Issue #5
  • Added a new menu option: "Show Link Editor Toolbar". Solves Issue #11
  • Added a new menu option: "Show 'Raw' tab". Solves Issue #11
  • Added a new menu option: "Hide 'Recent...' files list". Solves Issue #11

🛠️ Fixes:

  • The program can crash when it is unable to retrieve the description field for some kind of link files.
  • The menu options "Default" and "Dark" in "Settings > Visual Style" allowed them to be unchecked individually.

🌟 Improvements:

  • "About" menu button is now aligned to the top right corner of the window bounds. Solves Issue #11
  • Now a message box will display to inform about errors if the data of a link file can't be read.
  • Menu item "Show toolbar" has been renamed to "Show File Menu Toolbar".

v1.5 🔄

🚀 New Features:

  • Added support for opening *.lnk files from command-line.
  • Added a new menu option: "Remember Window Size and Position".
  • Added a new menu option: "Add Explorer's context-menu entry for *.lnk". Solves Issue #2
  • Added an icons toolbar below the top menu strip to have faster access to the "File" menu commands. Solves Issue #8

🛠️ Fixes:

  • Some elements within the user interface remained unaffected when the user opted for a different font size.
  • Made capable to save changes in read-only link files. Solves Issue #9
  • Fixed buffer sizes to read/write link properties that prevents exceeding the maximum allowed length. Solves Issue #7

🌟 Improvements:

  • Assigned a default accelerator key for all of the menu options.
  • Added a menu option to show or hide the icons toolbar.
  • Renamed / simplified names for tabs.
  • Now the user settings are stored within the executable directory in a folder with name "cache". This makes the application 100% portable. Solves Issue #10
  • Added a confirmation message box for successful saves, and another for failed saves.
  • Incremented selectable font sizes up to 16pt.

v1.4 🔄

🚀 New Features:

  • Added basic support for command-line arguments. Now you can pass a shortcut's file path to the executable file to open/load the specified shortcut in the program.
  • Added a Hexadecimal Viewer (read-only) to view the raw contents of the current loaded shortcut file.

🌟 Improvements:

  • Minor UI changes and source-code optimizations.

v1.3 🔄

🛠️ Fixes:

  • Fixed a visual issue with the menu strip.

v1.2 🔄

🌟 Improvements:

  • The UI editor for selecting the icon index now allows to view and select a specific icon within the resource file. (see the screenshot below)
  • The system dialogs to select files and folders now are forcefully shown in English language. Except the dialog to choose an icon index.
  • Now the application's context menu is also accessible through right click on the bottom status bar.
  • The ordering of the items in the 'File' menu has been simplified.
  • The algorithm for representing the file size of the current .lnk file has been optimized.

v1.1 🔄

🚀 New Features:

  • Added an UI editor for 'Icon' property to select a icon file through a dialog window.

  • Added an UI editor for 'Icon Index' property to preview the current icon.

  • Added an UI editor for 'Target' property to select a file or folder through a dialog window.

  • Added an UI editor for 'Working Directory' property to select a folder through a dialog window.

  • Added icon preview for the current shortcut file on the status bar.

  • Added a property 'Target Display Name' which will display a friendly name for special targets. (eg. '::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}' CLSID is translated as 'My PC').

  • Added a context menu accessible through a right mouse click on the property grid, with the next commands:

    Open Shortcut Open Target Open Target with Arguments View Shortcut in Explorer View Target in Explorer View Working Directory in Explorer View Icon in Explorer

  • Added 'New' option in 'File' menu to create a new, empty shortcut.

  • Added 'Font Size' option in 'Settings' menu to change the UI font size.

🌟 Improvements:

  • Increased default UI font size to 10pt.
  • Improved the representation of 'Length' property value. (Now it displays a proper file size string instead of a raw bytes-length value.)
  • Improved the resizing of the property grid. (Now it keeps the default column size while the user is resizing the window.)
  • Other minor UI corrections.
  • Some property descriptions were abbreviated.

v1.0 🔄

Initial Release.