Squirrel.windows: Rename a shortcut

[ChaseFlorell]

I'm looking at the CreateShortcutsForExecutable and it doesn't have an option to name the shortcut. I notice that the Shortcut name is the same as the exe name, but I'm hoping to be able to change it per environment.

MyApp.exe

• (dev shortcut) MyApp - Dev
• (qual shortcut) MyApp - Qual
• (prod shortcut) MyApp

Is there an easy way to do this with the stuff built into Squirrel now? Since I'm super lazy, what's the preferred approach to achieving this?

[agostinocinelli]

Same problem here, what about a new parameter in UpdateManager:CreateShortcutsForExecutable()?

[anaisbetts]

I think you probably want to do this by-hand yourself, it should be pretty easy to call CreateShortcutsForExecutable then rename it

[ChaseFlorell]

@paulcbetts does Squirrel have hooks into the shortcut locations, or do I have to try and figure those out manually?

[anaisbetts]

@ChaseFlorell Gotta figure them out yourself though if you look at the Squirrel source it's not so bad

Update: actually it might be That Bad, maybe we should have an API for this

[ChaseFlorell]

Yeah, I was thinking it would be nice to have an overload on CreateShortcutsForExecutable

[ChaseFlorell]

@paulcbetts would you be willing to re-open this and give a little guidance on how you envision it being implemented? I'd be interested on working on it and submitting a PR. This is definitely a need in our Continuous Delivery pipeline.

[anaisbetts]

@ChaseFlorell I would instead have a new method GetShortcutsForExecutable that has an identical signature but instead of doing something, returns the ShellLink object that it _would_ create, which means you can edit it and commit it yourself

[StillLearnin]

Any updates on this? I could use it as well.

[anaisbetts]

Ah sorry, this has been shipped for awhile now, check out https://github.com/Squirrel/Squirrel.Windows/blob/aea7552c392e6fa8f49fa2a0733060e6c8342bc0/src/Squirrel/UpdateManager.ApplyReleases.cs#L153

[Slion]

Why not use the title as specified in the NuGet package to name the shortcut?
EDIT: What I was looking is explained there. Squirrel rocks!