Pin app in taskbar in visual studio setup project

Question

When Mozilla Firefox installs, the installer pins Mozilla in taskbar, and I want it too!!!

I'm using VS2010

Answer 1

Vb.net Code snippet for Pin to/Unpin from Task Bar and Start Menu. (framework 3.5)

Dim shellApplication As Shell = New ShellClass()

Dim directoryName As String = Path.GetDirectoryName(filePath)
Dim fileName As String = Path.GetFileName(filePath)

Dim directory As Shell32.Folder = shellApplication.[NameSpace](directoryName)
Dim link As FolderItem = directory.ParseName(fileName)

Dim verbs As FolderItemVerbs = link.Verbs()
For i As Integer = 0 To verbs.Count - 1
  Dim verb As FolderItemVerb = verbs.Item(i)
  Dim verbName As String = verb.Name.Replace("&", String.Empty)   
 If (verbName.Equals("Pin to Start Menu")) Or (verbName.Equals("Unpin from Start Menu")) Then

    verb.DoIt()
  End If
Next
shellApplication = Nothing

'filePath is the path of .exe file that you want to pin/Unpin taskbar

In Case of Pinning/Unpinning Taskbar replace "Pin to Start Menu" with "pin to taskbar" and "Unpin from Start Menu" to "unpin from taskbar"

All the pinned files resides in the

C:\Users\%LoggedIn_User_Name%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned 

This Code is working on Windows7 US English.

Cheers!

Answer 2

private static void PinUnpinTaskBar(string filePath, bool pin) {
    if (!File.Exists(filePath)) throw new FileNotFoundException(filePath);

    // create the shell application object
    Shell shellApplication = new ShellClass();

    string path = Path.GetDirectoryName(filePath);
    string fileName = Path.GetFileName(filePath);

    Folder directory = shellApplication.NameSpace(path);
    FolderItem link = directory.ParseName(fileName);

    FolderItemVerbs verbs = link.Verbs();
    for (int i = 0; i < verbs.Count; i++) {
        FolderItemVerb verb = verbs.Item(i);
        string verbName = verb.Name.Replace(@"&", string.Empty).ToLower();

        if ((pin && verbName.Equals("pin to taskbar")) || (!pin && verbName.Equals("unpin from taskbar"))) {

            verb.DoIt();
        }
    }

    shellApplication = null;
}

be sure to include the "Microsoft Shell Controls And Automation" reference

and say thanks to @James Johnston - his original post