[Windows] Launch Winform On Start - The Easy Method

Basically all we're doing is creating a shortcut to our app in the Windows Start-Up folder.

Add a reference to Windows Script Host Object Model

Call this method in your code... (I like to do it in the form closing event myself)

void LaunchOnStartup()

{

    // On Windows Startup

    string shortcutLocation = Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.Startup) + @"\MyApp.lnk";

    if (!File.Exists(shortcutLocation))

    {

        try

        {

            IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShell shell = new IWshRuntimeLibrary.WshShell();

            System.Reflection.Assembly curAssembly = System.Reflection.Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly();

            IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut shortcut = (IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut)shell.CreateShortcut(shortcutLocation);

            shortcut.Description = "My App";

            shortcut.WorkingDirectory = AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

            shortcut.TargetPath = curAssembly.Location;

           

            shortcut.Save();

        }

        catch (Exception ex)

        {

        }

    }

}