wix - shortcut icon for website

Question

I'm new on wix. In need to create a shortcut to a local website.

It works fine and creates the shorcuts, but it doesn't show any icon on start menu and desktop... The website has favicon file and when I open the site I can see it perfectly - I just don't see it in the shortcut. I tried to google it but I didn't find a good answer for util:InternetShortcut..

My code is:

<DirectoryRef Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder">
  <Component Id="ApplicationShortcutBBBApp" Guid="---">
    <util:InternetShortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcutBBBApp"
                    Name="BBB"
                    Target="http://localhost/BBB"/>
    <util:InternetShortcut Id="ApplicationDesktopShortcutBBBApp"
                    Name="BBB"
                    Directory="DesktopFolder"
                    Target="http://localhost/BBB"/>
    <RegistryValue Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Microsoft\BBB" Name="installed" Type="integer" Value="1" KeyPath="yes"/>
  </Component>
</DirectoryRef>

Answer 1

There is an easier solution for that problem. Instead of using InternetShortcut, you can just use the normal Shortcut and use a trick to set the target being a url.

<SetProperty Id="URL" Value="http://yourpage.com" Sequence="execute"  Before="CreateShortcuts" />


<Shortcut Directory="DesktopFolder" Id="WebShortcut" Name="Your Page" Description="Your Page Description" Target="[URL]" Icon="IconDesktop">
    <Icon Id="IconDesktop" SourceFile="images\icon.ico" />
</Shortcut>

"SetProperty" can be placed somewhere in your Product tag. "Shortcut" should be placed instead of "InternetShortcut". It is important to have the property [URL] as a Target. As a Property it can be an url. Diretctly written it doese not work. There might be warnings in heat/candle/light, they can be ignored.

Answer 2

InternetShortcut doesn't support specifying an icon like a normal Shortcut. There's an open feature request for that. Technically, IUniformResourceLocator shortcuts in Windows don't support icons, though IShellLink shortcuts do.