It's not that simple, in fact it's not supported at all.. see http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2003/09/03/54760.aspx for some background. The Quick Launch shortcuts were never supported either, however it developers quickly figured out that dropping a shortcut in the folder did the trick.
There are ways to do it, but that's outside the scope of this list. And anyway auto-pinning your application to the Windows 7 taskbar will an excellent way to quickly lose customers :) Sascha On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Tony Juricic <tjuri...@tradestation.com> wrote: > The right substitute for Vista/XP like Quick Launch shortcut is to make the > link pinned to the taskbar (IMO). > > It appears as simple as putting the shortcut in User Pinned\TaskBar subfolder > of Quick Launch folder in Windows 7. > > <!-- Quick Launch per-user folder --> > <Directory Id="QL1" SourceName="Application Data"> > <Directory Id="QL2" Name="Microsoft"> > <Directory Id="QL3" Name="Internet Explorer"> > <Directory Id="QL4" Name="Quick Launch" /> > <Directory Id="QL5" Name="User Pinned" /> > <Directory Id="QL6" Name="TaskBar" /> > </Directory> > </Directory> > </Directory> > </Directory> > > Now, I can condition the installation of the component containing the > Shortcut element. > When OS is Windows 7 shortcut gets created in QL6 directory, otherwise in QL4. > > Since this would unnecessarily create User Pinned\TaskBar folders on Vista > and XP, does anybody know if there is a more elegant way to accomplish the > same goal? > > TradeStation Group, Inc. is a publicly-traded holding company (NASDAQ GS: > TRAD) of three operating subsidiaries, TradeStation Securities, Inc. (Member > NYSE, FINRA, SIPC and NFA), TradeStation Technologies, Inc., a trading > software and subscription company, and TradeStation Europe Limited, a United > Kingdom, FSA-authorized introducing brokerage firm. None of these companies > provides trading or investment advice, recommendations or endorsements of any > kind. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity > to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged > material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or > taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or > entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any > computer. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community > Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support > A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy > Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers > http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
