Visual Basic - How to extract the "target" property of a shortcut

<body> <h1><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.andreavb.com/forum/viewtopic_7470.html" >How to extract the "target" property of a shortcut</a></h1> <p>I have a folder containing shortcuts to other folders around the network.For each shortcut, I need to follow the "target" to the target folder and then check the "date of last update" of each of the files in the target folder. </p> <p><a href="http://www.tutcity.com/">More Tutorials</a></p> </body>