visual studio installer -> startup folder

[cotang]

How do I add a shortcut of my program to the startup folder on the user machine when they install the program when using visual studio installer to create the deployment package?

Thanks,.

[dilettante]

Should be as easy as shown in the screenshot.

[cotang]

Should be as easy as shown in the screenshot.

Great that work pretty good, the only thing is I can't seem to find any info on creating a shortcut of the program to be installed on the target system. I did find that I can create a shortcut but the short cut does work when I installed it on the target machine, its seems like the target path of the shortcut when installed shows nothing.

[dilettante]

You set the shortcut's properties in VSI over in the Properties window. if this is not showing, right-click on the shortcut and choose "Properties Window" to display it.

From there you can choose the installed "Component" for the shortcut to target, Arguments if any, an Icon if you don't want the target EXE's default icon, the shortcut's Name, etc.

[cotang]

Ok, I created the shortcut in the apprioate folder but the target box in the properties windows is greyed out. I can't seem to edit it.

[dilettante]

You don't set Target manually, you set the Component property.

The installer package only creates shortcuts for software components that it installs, not random shortcuts to anything at all.