Thanks Chad as I did not notice I said that. I definitely mean a "short name" or 8.3 name. I would just as soon not clutter my .wxs file with them if I don't need them and so am wondering on XP forward in what cases a user would see one of the auto generated short names if I did not specify them and so whether I really needed to specify them.
Thanks for pointing that out. - Dave -----Original Message----- From: Chad Petersen [mailto:chad.peter...@harlandfs.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:22 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are shortcut names even useful anymore? Be careful there. A short name (8.3 convention) is different than a Shortcut, which is what your subject line implies. -----Original Message----- From: Dave Kolb [mailto:d...@dotnetcodeslingers.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:56 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are shortcut names even useful anymore? Blair thanks but I have to confess to not understanding that explanation at all. What would be such a case that an XP or Vista user saw a short name instead of the NTFS name? - Dave -----Original Message----- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 9:22 AM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Are shortcut names even useful anymore? Shortcut names are exposed to users on XP systems and may be exposed to them on Vista systems, depending on whether they have had a native resource dll string table entry assigned to them. The windows shell which is responsible for showing the start menu is either all or mostly native code, the .net version doesn't matter (just the underlying platform). The disk format doesn't matter either. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
