Easy-Link-File-Viewer

v1.6.2

🛠️ 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 setting: "Remember Window Size and Position".
• Added a new setting: "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 setting 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 a UI editor for 'Icon' property to select a icon file through a dialog window.
• Added a UI editor for 'Icon Index' property to preview the current icon.
• Added a UI editor for 'Target' property to select a file or folder through a dialog window.
• Added a 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.

Initial Release