Installation

[Sehboo]

I have a website (www.motiont.com) where people come to download
softwares like Job Finder, CraigsList Reader, etc. I am using VS
Setup Project to deploy my applications, but some users are
complaining that they loose the shortcut to the application. It seems
like everything is fine, the exe is there, all the setup files are
there but for some reason they cannot use the shortcuts which were
created by the installation.

They can either double click the exe or create their own shortcuts to
run these programs but they cannot use the shortcuts created by the
installation. This of course doesn't happen to everybody, but a very
few people.

I am not doing anything special to create these shortcuts.

Any idea?

 

[Pavel Minaev]

I have a website (www.motiont.com) where people come to download
softwares like Job Finder, CraigsList Reader, etc.  I am using VS
Setup Project to deploy my applications, but some users are
complaining that they loose the shortcut to the application.  It seems
like everything is fine, the exe is there, all the setup files are
there but for some reason they cannot use the shortcuts which were
created by the installation.

They can either double click the exe or create their own shortcuts to
run these programs but they cannot use the shortcuts created by the
installation.  This of course doesn't happen to everybody, but a very
few people.

I am not doing anything special to create these shortcuts.

Any idea?

If you have removed "Project primary output" from your Setup project
and then re-added it, all shortcuts that were automatically created
when you first created the Setup project are invalidated (their Target
property is reset), and need to be fixed. Check for that.