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JimDel
JimDel

Reputation: 4359

How can I place a Desktop App shortcut on the Windows 8 Start screen without using an installer?

My Desktop Application is just a single exe file. For reasons that aren't important, I can't use an installer which would add an icon to the Windows 8 Start screen. Can one be added programatically with C#?

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1877

Answers (2)

wjhguitarman
wjhguitarman

Reputation: 1073

If you right click on the exe you can click pin-to start Pin to start

This worked for my example in the image, which is a stand-alone exe without any sort of installation. It will then appear on the start bar.enter image description here

Hope this helps.

EDIT: I realized after that you said programmatically. It looks like a link to the start page is put in C:\Users[UserName]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs enter image description here So perhaps you could tell it to deposit a short cut there?

EDIT 2 this previous question may also be helpful: Creating application shortcut in a directory. It is in C#

Upvotes: 4

Jim O'Neil
Jim O'Neil

Reputation: 23754

Take a look at the code samples for enabling desktop notifications, a prerequisite of which is the existence of a shortcut installed to the Start screen. The sample is C++ w/COM, but you should be able to incorporate this small bit into a C# app (or rewrite the sample code in C# directly).

Upvotes: 0

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