Does anyone know why util:InternetShorcut creates a .lnk rather than a
.url? My current code for creating a web link on the start menu is as
follows:
<DirectoryRef Id="ShortcutsFolder">
<Component Id="shortcuts" Guid="myguid">
...
<util:InternetShortcut Id="WebsiteShortcut" Name="IES Online"
Target="http://www.iesve.com"; />
...
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
The shortcut it creates ends up with the first indexed icon from
shell32.dll & the tooltip you get when hovering over it shows "Location:
Internet Explorer" (tested in XP32 Virtual Machine & many internal users
report the same on their installations).
I can fix this in our releases by creating a .url (as in bookmarking the
site) & specifying it as a File but it seems rather much like a kludge
since util:InternetShortcut exists in the WiX 3.0 toolset.
When I previously used WiX 2.0 I created web links using the following
code:
<IniFile Id="IESURL" Action="addLine" Key="URL" Name="IES.URL"
Section="InternetShortcut" Value="http://www.iesve.com"; LongName="IES
Online.url" />
As shown in the tutorial at
http://www.tramontana.co.hu/wix/lesson6.php#6.2 which worked fine
happily creating a .url that displays the site's favicon.ico for it's
icon & displaying the URL in the tooltip as you would expect.
Should I report this as a bug or a feature request & has anyone had any
issues/different behaviour using util:InternetShortcut where IE isn't
the default browser on the system your MSI is being installed to?
Palbinder Sandher
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