Visual Studio Installer With My Icon?

[ctullar]

I am creating an installation package for my vb6 project with Visual Studio Installer, part of Visual Studio 6.0. Whenever I make installers, the icon is some non-descript computer. Lame. I want my project icon to take its place so, for instance, if I went to uninstall the program, my icon would be there instead of this rogue moldy computer image.

Does anyone know the answer?

[si_the_geek]

Thread moved to Application Deployment forum

I just had a look and can't find an option to change it, but am sure that I have done it before at some point.

There are links in the Application Deployment FAQ (at the top of this forum) to guides and documentation for it, which will hopefully provide the answer.

[dilettante]

The icon presented is the one Windows has associated with it. There is no icon resource in the MSI to be replaced.

The alternative might be to wrap the MSI in some sort of bootstrapper EXE, but that can defeat the purpose of using an Installer package in the first place. People in corporate shops grumble mightily when they have to unpack MSIs from such wrapper EXEs in order to use them with advanced deployment strategies.

Skinning in any form is overrated and tends to reduce rather than enhance credibility, so you haven't lost much.