WIX adding shortcut to a website or url location using wix and choose custom icon for that shortcut.

Question

I want to add a shortcut to the start menu group with following specifications:

1. It should point to a website, say www.xyz.com
2. It should have some custom icon
3. I need to pass some parameters to it, like www.xyz.com?lang=XXXX. Where XXXX is language code e.g. 1033, 1036, etc. and it's dependent on the language chosen by the user for my application.

Please help.

Answer 1

if the website is always the same you could try including one shortcut.url inside your package for each language that you support and install only the one for that specific language on the disk. this way you could also control the shortcut that gets used for the .url file.

Answer 2

I found a work-around for this problem. I made an executable which parses stored language and then calls ShellExecute to start the default browser with required url and language option. I added a shortcut to this executable in the start menu, icon was included in the executable itself.

Answer 3

Hello

I am stuckup in the same problem. if you have the dll or the code can you please provide us. IT will be very helpful for us.

Regards, Rani