Just to clarify: It was the user who pinned our shortcut to the taskbar. And it is the user who complains after installing the upgrade to our application because that pinned shortcut ends up as half-removed.
I guess the reason for the disappearing pinned shortcut is because my installers only do Major Upgrade. The implied uninstall of previous versions removes the file the pinned shortcut pointed to. One of the reasons that I have avoided Minor Upgrade mode is that the WiX tutorial states "minor upgrades cannot be run simply by clicking on the .msi file" and I much prefer to keep my .msi installer as pure as possible (to ease deployment for network admins). Am I barking up the right tree here? I think I'll close the bug report from my user as "as designed". Or should I consider changing to Minor Upgrade and provide both .exe and .msi versions of my installer? -- Rune On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 12:31 AM, Rob Mensching <r...@robmensching.com> wrote: > AFAIK (from Raymond Chen) pinning is user action in Windows . Windows does > not provide programmatic access to it (to prevent bad programs from > pinning/unpinning all kinds of stuff to user's start bar). > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:53 AM, Rune Moberg <jjfl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have a similar issue as David below. I install my product (with >> announced shortcut), run my app, pin its icon, and finally I install a >> newer version of my product. The result is a ghost shortcut (generic >> icon pointing nowhere) and a confused user. >> >> Any pointers/suggestions would be most welcome. >> >> -- >> Rune >> >> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:30 AM, David Connet >> <d...@agilityrecordbook.com> wrote: >> > In my installer, I set 2 ShortcutPropertys >> > System.AppUserModel.PreventPinning=0 >> > System.AppUserModel.ID=myid >> > This works fine and enables the 'pin to' options on the shortcut. >> > >> > Now, if I pin the both the taskbar and start menu and then uninstall the >> program, only the start menu pinning is undone. The taskbar one remains, >> forcing the user to unpin it. >> > >> > Is there any way to clean that up on uninstall? >> > >> > And similarly, on upgrade can I preserve the pin? (not a big deal if I >> can at least solve the cleanup issue) >> > >> > Thanks! >> > Dave Connet >> > >> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> > Get a FREE DOWNLOAD! and learn more about uberSVN rich system, >> > user administration capabilities and model configuration. Take >> > the hassle out of deploying and managing Subversion and the >> > tools developers use with it. http://p.sf.net/sfu/wandisco-d2d-2 >> > _______________________________________________ >> > WiX-users mailing list >> > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Live Security Virtual Conference >> Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and >> threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions >> will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware >> threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ >> _______________________________________________ >> WiX-users mailing list >> WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users >> > > > > -- > virtually, > > Rob Mensching > http://RobMensching.com LLC > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Live Security Virtual Conference > Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and > threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions > will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware > threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ > _______________________________________________ > WiX-users mailing list > WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ WiX-users mailing list WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-users
