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Automated Shortcut Generation


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pshore

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Posted 23 May 2005 - 19:14

I am working with an application which needs a large number of shortcuts to the same EXE with different parameters. Is there a tool/script which can assistin in this task? The information for the shortcuts is currently in an Excel spreadsheet. Ideally I would like to auto-generate all of the shortcuts. Thank you in advance.

_nick_

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Posted 24 May 2005 - 14:40

Depends on which installation technology that you are using. WiX (which I use and have found to be very good) builds installers using XML files as input, so you could create a shortcut fragment which could be generated by a script that would translate your csv file (you would be saving the file as a csv to save yourself some trouble right?).

KapilMarwah

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Posted 24 May 2005 - 15:48

If u have all the info in Excel, just copy the rows from Excel and Paste it in the shortcuttable using ORCA 3 (ctrl+shift+v).

Hope this helps

Kapil