Pin a named set of applications to the task bar (e.g. Notepad++, SSMS, VS Code)

TaskbarActions.ps1

# Pin a named set of applications to the task bar (e.g. Notepad++, SSMS, VS Code)
# If there are programs on different drives (e.g. Code on c:, SSMS on f:), 
# then a little refactoring is in order.
$application = New-Object -ComObject shell.application

# Programs required
$appSet = 'Notepad++\Notepad++.exe', 'Microsoft SQL Server\140\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\Ssms.exe'

# All assumed to be under this root...
$CProgramFiles86 = "C:\Program Files (x86)"
"Pinning programs from [$CProgramFiles86] to the taskbar..."
$ns = $application.NameSpace($CProgramFiles86)
if ($ns -eq $null) {
    "Error 1: [$CProgramFiles86] is null. Exiting..."
    throw
}
$appSet | % {
    $currentProgram = $_
    "Pinning [$currentProgram]"
    $pn = $ns.ParseName($currentProgram)
    if ($pn -eq $null) {
         "Error 2: [$currentProgram] was not found. Exiting..."
         return
    }
    $pn.InvokeVerb('TaskbarPin')
}

"Done"

#https://chocolatey.org/packages/notepadplusplus
# iwr https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1 | iex
# choco install notepadplusplus -y -dir="c:\TEMP"