dnd on desktop icon

Question

Hi I created a windows application. When installed it will create a desktop shortcut icon. How can I make the shortcut icon of my application accept a single file by just dragging and dropping into it and automatically start processing the dropped file? thanks in advance.

Gilmar Posesano · Answer

Thanks Kirtan for your quick reply That's actually the steps in deploying an application and creating a shortcut of my application on the desktop. My scenario is this: I already created a desktop shortcut of my application all I want is to drag a file and drop it in the shortcut icon in the desktop (without double clicking the shortcut icon to open the application) assuming my application will only rename a file from current name to a new name that I want. When I dropped a file into the shortcut icon it will automatically rename a file. It should not open the application when a file was drop instead it will process the renaming of a file. Is this possible in C#? I deeply appreciate your reply. thanks in advance

Kirtan Patel · Answer

in Visual Studio File > New Project >Other Project type > Setup and Deployment Then U can assign What File Will go where when installing and in ur case Right Click on User's Desktop Folder in Left Pane and Select Create Shortcut to User Desktop and Create shortcut of ur Executable in Application Folder thats it :) Happy Coding :)