Desktop shortcut when deploying

[bede]

I added a deployment project to my solution and when through the
process of setting it all up.
When I run my installer it does everything correctly apart from the
fact that the shortcut on the desktop and the program files menu
points not to the exe file but to the folder the exe file is in.

When I go into my deployment project and try to change the target
property of the shortcut it only lets me choose "Application Folder".
I can not choose the exe.

What am I doing wrong ?

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You create the shortcut to the executable from the executable file in the
deployment project, and then move it to the desktop folder.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
http://www.miradyne.net

 

[bede]

I still cant get that to work.

When I add a shortcut in my application folder of my deployment
project it still only lets me point to the folder and not the exe.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

You must be crating a shortcut to the folder, rather than the executable,
then.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP

DSI PrintManager, Miradyne Component Libraries:
http://www.miradyne.net