nope, Phil is correct.
If you open your setup project within Visual Studio, you should see a
treeview displaying the "File System on Target Machine".
To create the shortcuts, simply click on the Application Folder node in the
tree view, right click on the file you want to create the shortcut for, and
select "Create shortcut". Then just drag this to the 'User's Desktop' node
or User's Programs Menu node, etc.
Every time you then run your setup, it should place the shortcuts there.
Francis Ingels
SDET Developer Division Sustained Engineering
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>I think you are telling me how to do this manually. I want to be able to
>automate these features so it's handled by the set up kit. I have seen
this
>done in many kits I have installed. Many it's not possible. I can live
with
>that.
>
While I appreciate both your reply, I found them difficult to follow. This
best explaination I found was on the vbcity forum.
http://www.vbcity.com/forums/topic.asp?tid=78405 I am posting this here for future searchers. (I corrected one typo)
Right-click on your set up project, click on "View--File System".
Click on "Application Folder" and look for the listing "Primary Output from
....", where the "..." will be your application project's name. Right-click on
this entry and select "Create Shortcut".
Now right-click on "Shortcut to Primary Output from ..." and select rename,
giving the name you want the user to see for your application.
You should already see a listing for "User's Desktop". Drag-and-drop the
shortcut from #3 into "User's Desktop".
