Adding desktop shortcut programmtically in Windows

I was tinkering of how I can put a desktop shortcut of my program and I thought this is one of those things I still have to learn. So, I wander into the internet to find a most simple example and read lots of articles and discussion and somehow I find it daunting to read all those codes where all I want is to create a simple desktop shortcut. After a lot of reading and experimentation I finally have the code below.

#include<windows.h>
#include<shlobj.h>

 int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInst, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR szCmdLine, int iCmdShow)
{
    createShortcut();
    return 0;
}

void createShortcut()
{
    HRESULT hr;
    ::CoInitialize(NULL);

IShellLink *pShellLink;
hr = ::CoCreateInstance(CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, CLSCTX_ALL,IID_IShellLink, (void**)&pShellLink);
hr = pShellLink->SetPath("C:\\MyProjects\\OCXTest\\Debug\\OCXTest.exe");  // Path to the object we are referring to
hr = pShellLink->SetDescription("This is a test!!");
hr = pShellLink->SetIconLocation("C:\\MyProjects\\OCXTest\\Debug\\ocxtest.ico",0);

IPersistFile *pPersistFile;
hr = pShellLink->QueryInterface(IID_IPersistFile, (void**)&pPersistFile);

WCHAR wszLinkPath[MAX_PATH];
::MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, "C:\\Documents and Settings\\Earl\\Desktop\\OcxTest.lnk", -1, wszLinkPath, MAX_PATH);

hr = pPersistFile->Save(wszLinkPath, TRUE);
hr = pPersistFile->Release();
hr = pShellLink->Release();

::CoUninitialize();
}


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