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WiX: How to pin to start the apps icon to the Windows 10 Start menu and task-bar using WiX?


How to pin your apps to the Windows 10 Start menu (big right icons) and taskbar alongside the live tiles using WiX?

I was looking the manual but is for V3. WiX Toolset v4.x reference manual is coming soon. at: http://wixtoolset.org/documentation/

I wish to give the user the option to Pin the icon app in the installation process. I'm able to make a normal installation on all windows platforms but not able to include the app (big button icon on the right). Is that possible using WiX?


Solution

  • That's not supported. Per MSDN:

    A small set of applications are pinned by default for new installations. Other than these, only the user can pin further applications; programmatic pinning by an application is not permitted.