I got two problem using Windows Installer

1. Conditional Desktop Shortcu
When I create an installer package using Visual Studio .NET and use a checkbox dialog to ask whether the user wants to install a desktop shortcut to the application there is not way how I can add a condition to the shortcut which processes the information of the checkbox. It seems that if I add a shortcut to the desktop it will always be installed and it is not possible to add a condition to this

Question: Is there anybody who can tell me how to ask the user whether he/she wants to add a shortcut to the desktop during installation and how to process this so that it will be correctly added or not added

2. Environment String Valu
I am not able to find any information on using environment string value. What I want to do is to add a registry value to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run which contains the APPLICATION PATH\application.exe. I want that the application path is automatically added, dependent to the path the user has chosen in the INSTALLATION FOLDER dialog

Question: Can anyone tell me how to automatically add the APPLICATION PATH to the registry value during the installation depending on the folder the user has chosen

Many thanks!

Lieperi

On 2: Create a registry item and put [TARGETDIR]Application.exe in it -
TARGETDIR is the installer property that's evaluated at run time to the
actual folder (the brackets make that happen).

On 1: It's not a Windows Installer issue as much as the fact that VS is not
a fully-featured setup builder, which is why there are a bunch of other
products, some of which let you use all the features of MSI. In your
situation I'd use a VBScript custom action based on the CreateShortcut
method of the WshShell object, condition it on the property in your dialog.
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Phil Wilson
[MVP Windows Installer]
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checkbox dialog to ask whether the user wants to install a desktop shortcut
to the application there is not way how I can add a condition to the
shortcut which processes the information of the checkbox. It seems that if I
add a shortcut to the desktop it will always be installed and it is not
possible to add a condition to this.
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he/she wants to add a shortcut to the desktop during installation and how to
process this so that it will be correctly added or not added?
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What I want to do is to add a registry value to the
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run which
contains the APPLICATION PATH\application.exe. I want that the application
path is automatically added, dependent to the path the user has chosen in
the INSTALLATION FOLDER dialog.
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to the registry value during the installation depending on the folder the
user has chosen.
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Many thanks Phil. Item two works now and we ware working on the custom script for the shortcut