chreating shortcut to start menu desktop in asp.net

[chris_angell]

hello... i am stuck hence being here, when I was working in asp I remember making ws.shelllinks to create shortcuts that could go on the start menu and the desktop to open a webpage or any shortcut

but now I am using .net i can't find anything that can do this, which is strange because i would have thought .net being more powerful it would be easier to make shortcuts ???

if anyone could help or guide me in the right direction, i would appriciate it very much..


many thabnks chris

[glenngv]

You do it in client-side (javascript) not server-side, therefore classic ASP or ASP.NET has nothing to do with it. Here's the javascript code for it:

function createShortcut(){
  if (ActiveXObject){
    var WSHShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
    var DesktopPath = WSHShell.SpecialFolders("Desktop");
    var MyShortcut = WSHShell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath + "\\YourSite.url");
    MyShortcut.TargetPath = WSHShell.ExpandEnvironmentStrings("http://yoursite.com");
    MyShortcut.Save();
    alert("A shortcut to my site now exists on your Desktop.");
  }
  else alert("Sorry, this is IE feature only.");
}