The hyperlink object
A hyperlink object implements the IHlink interface and encapsulates four pieces of reference information: a moniker to the hyperlink target; a string for the location within the target; a friendly name for the target; and additional parameters.
The hyperlink object completely encapsulates the behavior of navigating to a referenced location. It also supports the ability to save and load itself through the IPersistStream interface, and the ability to be transferred through the clipboard or through drag-and-drop operations by means of IDataObject. A standard hyperlink object implementation is provided with the system, and it is not advisable to implement another version. A document can use the standard hyperlink object to represent hyperlinks within itself, thus encapsulating the work of navigating, saving, loading, dragging, dropping, cutting, and pasting hyperlinks. Standard hyperlink objects are created through the HlinkCreateFromData, HlinkCreateFromMoniker, HlinkCreateFromString, and OleLoadFromStream functions. The standard hyperlink object implements the IHlink, IPersistStream, and IDataObject interfaces.
IHlink::GetHlinkSite Method
The hyperlink container
A hyperlink container is a document or application that contains hyperlinks. The container supports hyperlinks by implementing the IHlinkSite interface and, if the container's objects can be targets of other hyperlinks, the IHlinkTarget interface.
Note Generally, an object that acts as a hyperlink container can also act as a hyperlink target. An HTML page, for example, can contain a number of hyperlinks to other pages, while at the same time it can be the target of hyperlinks from other HTML pages.
The hyperlink site
A hyperlink site is a COM object that implements the IHlinkSite interface and supplies either the moniker or interface identifier of its hyperlink container. One hyperlink site can serve multiple hyperlinks. The moniker supplied by the hyperlink site is used to evaluate relative monikers to the hyperlink target. If the relative moniker is NULL, the target of the link is in the same container object, and IHlink::Navigate can result in an efficient internal jump
Note The standard hyperlink object performs internal jumps by retrieving the container's IHlinkTarget moniker using IHlinkTarget::GetMoniker (which avoids an unnecessary moniker bind). The object then asks the container to navigate directly through the IHlinkTarget::Navigate method