C# IShellLink COM Interop Example #1

I recently needed to use C# to programmatically create a shortcut (.LNK file) to a console executable. This is easily done in native C/C++ using the ShellLink CoClass, the IShellLink interface and their related interfaces. I looked around and couldn’t find a good C# COM interop example for the related native COM interfaces so I wrote one.   This was a good excuse for me to learn a litle bit about