MSI Shortcut Table

Shortcut table holds the information the application needs, to create shortcuts on the user's computer. Shortcut table has the following columns:

Shortcut:

This column contains the name of the shortcut.

Directory:

This column specifies the directory in which the Shortcut file is created.

Name:

The localizable name of the shortcut to be created

Component:

 This column references to the name of the component that contains the shortcut.

Target:

The value in this column varies for advertised and non-advertised shortcuts. For advertised shortcuts the value in this column references to the Feature which contains the component that owns the shortcut. And in the case of non-advertised shortcuts the value in this column will be formatted string, and this particular formatted string will a folder or file containing the shortcut. To convert the non-advertised shortcuts into advertised shortcut resolve the formatted string to its full path.

 Arguments:

This particular column references to the command-line arguments for the shortcut.

Description:

This column refers to the description of the shortcut.

Hotkey:

Authors of installation packages are generally recommended not to set this option, because the setting of this option can add duplicate hotkeys to a user's desktop.

Icon:

This is a foreign key to the Icon table. If this is null, the icon in the target file is used.

IconIndex:

This must be a non negative integer.

ShowCmd:

The Show command for the application window.

Value	Style
1	SW_SHOWNORMAL
3	SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED
7	SW_SHOWMINNOACTIVE

WKDir: This column contains the working directory of the shortcut.