Making a Send To Shortcut

Making a Send To Shortcut

• Paul Steele

  :-) was not sure you were creating an installer to do this, I thought you meant from within your application.

  OK, so you can safely ignore that code.

  As for not showing up in the sendTo menu even though you say you specified in the installer to create it in that folder, I really don't know as I have been able to do this just now.

  Even though its simple, are you able to post step by step the process you did to create a shortcut in the user's start menu in the installer project

  
  
  

• Miroslav_shrek

  Hi guys!!

  Kotter, you are absolutely right. On my machine too I followed same steps using VS.Net 2005; however, the shortcut did not display.

  I would have done it by installing the exe in send to folder, but, the product does not look good when the user has selected to display the extensions also in explorer's folder options. Therefore, I am searching for the way to place the shortcut.

  Just a food for thought ... I was wondering if this was something related to some registry entry !!

  I hope this help in making our search more specific.

  Thanks,

  Regards,

  Priyanka

  
  
  

• DeadDante

  The steps I am following are basically what you might expect for any deployment shortcut creation...I think:

  Create a Deployment Project
  Add my files
  For the shortcut creation, select the file system editor
  In the editor window Right Click, Add Special Folder
  Select "Users Send To Folder"
  In editor window select User's Send To Menu, Right click, Create Shortcut on Users Send To Menu
  Select newly created shortcut
  Ensure shortcut property target is your exe
  Build and install
  See the shortcut file created in the send to folder
  Notice that the shortcut does not show up in Right Click windows explorer
  So shortcut file exists, but doesn't show up off my right click

  
  
  

• vkan

  Larry Lemberger wrote:

  The shortcut gets created as an advertised shortcut. You need to modify the MSI with Orca, or another tool, and insert the following record into the Property table Property: DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS Value: 1

  Thank you! This was just the solution I needed.

  You'll have to download the Windows SDK and once you install it, you'll be able to install Orca. The Orca installer will be in

  C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0\Bin\Orca.msi

  
  

• CodeDjinn

  Why does the shortcut that gets created an Advertised Shortcut As apposed to a regular shortcut which would work in the Sent To folder
  
  

• darthziv

  Hi Kotter!

  I am also working on similar type of tool where I want to add my applicaiton's shortcut to the "Send To" menu.

  I wonder if you would like ot share the knowledge how you resolved it.

  Thanks in advance,

  Regards,

  Priyanka 

  
  
  

• wanderingbob

  An MSI file is really just a database which contains many tables. There are various MSI editing tools that enable you to modify the contents of these tables. Orca is a free tool from Microsoft. If you open the MSI with Orca you will see a property table.
  

• yanivpinhas

  "to create a shortcut, you may need to use the IWSH COM component, "...uh...what Why on Earth does the .msi I built install and create a short cut in Send To that does not show up Are you suggesting a work around Whats different about the send to folder short cut creation that differs from other folders VS installar seems to be OK with..

  I'd like some explaination as to why I need to write code to do this

  
  
  

• phoenix11

  The shortcut gets created as an advertised shortcut. You need to modify the MSI with Orca, or another tool, and insert the following record into the Property table

  Property: DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS

  Value: 1

  
  

• DanHaligas

  Hi,

  I still could not figure out how to resolve the issue.

  If I create the shortcut manually and place it in the "Send To" folder, it displays in the Explorer's SendTo menu. However, if I create shortcut using msi, then it does not list in menu.

  I could not understand about editing the property of Installer as you mentioned. Can we do that from registry.

  Kindly, explain it.

  Regards,

  Priyanka

  
  
  

• Sachin Saxena

  you would need to basically create a shortcut in the SendTo folder.

  To get the sendTo folder:

  string theSendToFolderPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.SendTo))

  to create a shortcut, you may need to use the IWSH COM component, here is a small example on creating a shortcut, but in VB.NET:

  http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=666372&SiteID=1

  There was one for C# which I provided but cannot seem to locate that thread! However in C#, try this:

  WshShell theShell = new WshShell(); IWShShortcut theLink = theShell.CreateShort(Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.SendTo) + "\\yourShortcut.lnk"); theLink.TargetPath = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.SendTo); theLink.Description = your description; theLink.Save();

  does this help

  
  
  
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