Visual Studio Setup project Shorcuts don't work in Windows 98

[Justin Bayles]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question but i'll ask it here anyway.

I am using a Visual Studio Setup project to make a .msi file to distribute a Visual Basic .Net program. I have specified that I want a shortcut to the Primary Output to be created on the desktop of the target machine. The shortcut is created as expected on all operating systems. When I execute the shortcut on Windows 98 however, I get the following error message:

"C:\WINDOWS\Application Data\Microsoft\Installer\{0BC41BD9-65BE-46BE-B3B5-912FB74DB787}\_187e16c5.exe is not a valid Win32 application."

If I browse to the following directory on my XP installation, the same file is there and I get the same error message when I try to execute the file.
C:\Documents and Settings\justin\Application Data\Microsoft\Installer\{0BC41BD9-65BE-46BE-B3B5-912FB74DB787}

{0BC41BD9-65BE-46BE-B3B5-912FB74DB787} is the product code of my .msi file.

It looks like Windows 98 doesn't know that it is supposed to create a shortcut and tries to execute the _187e16c5.exe file where as XP creates a short cut and actually executes the file pointed to by the shortcut.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thankyou,
Justin

[plenderj]

.NET, to the best of my knowledge, is only supported on Windows 2000 and upwards.