Hmm... I guess I would have a hard time to pass a concept here that I actually like the declarative way of doing things and am given to push it as much as possible, no matter how much attained functionality is approved of or looked down upon in certain circles.
-----Original Message----- From: Sascha Beaumont [mailto:sascha.beaum...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2009 7:51 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Quick Launch shortcut in Vista and Windows 7 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 > 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
