Date parsed: 05/05/2008 02:45:28
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 02:45:28 GMT
Hi Pat,
Yes, the setup/msi built-in shortcut creation may persist some status info
with the MSI(or some store associated with the MSI file). If you need to
create some shortcut independently, I think you can consider using custom
action to programmtically generate some shortcut files.
here are some reference about custom action and create short cut in .net
code:
#Walkthrough: Creating a Custom Action
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d9k65z2d.aspx#C# - Creating URL shortcut to desktop
http://www.sorrowman.org/c-sharp-programmer/url-link-to-desktop.html#How create a desktop shortcut in c#?
http://www.msnewsgroups.net/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.csharp/topic25984.aspx
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>Thread-Topic: VS2005 Setup and Deployment project
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>From: =?Utf-8?B?UEdOaWNob2xz?= <PatN@nospam.nospam>
>Subject: VS2005 Setup and Deployment project
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 12:36:01 -0700
>
>I've utilized the VS2005 Setup Project template to create an installation
>package for a project. I used the create new shortcut in the desktop
>directory to create shortcut on desktop to launch the application. The
>problem is that the shortcut will error if the .msi installation file is
>removed. I want to be able to remove all the installation files after the
>installation, is there a way to create a shortcut that is independent of
the
>.msi file being present?
>
>
