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This functionality has been discussed and requested as a feature for a future version of NuGet.

While this gets into the core of NuGet, you can use this code in an install.ps1 script (see Automatically Running PowerShell Scripts During Package Installation and Removal section if you don’t know what that file is for):

param($installPath, $toolsPath, $package, $project)
    # This is the MSBuild targets file to add
    $targetsFile = [System.IO.Path]::Combine($toolsPath, 'Funq.Build.targets')

    # Need to load MSBuild assembly if it's not loaded yet.
    [System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Build") | out-null
    # Grab the loaded MSBuild project for the project
    $msbuild = [Microsoft.Build.Evaluation.ProjectCollection]::GlobalProjectCollection.GetLoadedProjects($project.FullName) | Select-Object -First 1
    
    # Make the path to the targets file relative.
    $projectUri = new-object Uri('file://' + $project.FullName)
    $targetUri = new-object Uri('file://' + $targetsFile)
    $relativePath = $projectUri.MakeRelativeUri($targetUri).ToString().Replace([System.IO.Path]::AltDirectorySeparatorChar, [System.IO.Path]::DirectorySeparatorChar)
    
    # Add the import and save the project
    $msbuild.Xml.AddImport($relativePath) | out-null
    $project.Save()...

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IE is not my default browser. But still some links have to be sent to it in order for the right thing to happen (i.e. Microsoft Lync invitations, Live Meeting, InfoPath forms, etc.). So far I had the multi-click solution of opening IE, then clicking on a toolbar bookmark.

A coworker suggested to make the bookmarks shortcuts on the desktop for easier access. But as IE is not my default browser, that sends the link to Chrome in my case (Firefox or whatever in yours).

So, what I wanted was a Send To –> Internet Explorer:

Steps to set it up:

• Open %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo
• Drop a shortcut to the application you want to enable “Send to” for...

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