Shortcut icon of Exe on Desktop.

[Susheelss]

Hi friends,
For my application software, I created an install package using Package and Deployment wizard. Now my question is how to make a shortcut icon of application appear automatically on desktop when this package is installed?
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Susheelss.

[Siddharth Rout]

You could create vbs file (A notepad file but instead of .txt it is .vbs) and then run it on installation.

The text file will have the following...

Note:
Change the text in red to appropriate text...

MyFile ~~> whatever you want the shortcut to be called
Brief Description ~~> What ever brief description you want to put
Assign A Hotkey here ~~> Replace it with a hotkey
Myfile.Exe~~> Replace it with your filename
c:\MyFile.exe ~~> Target Path + Target Exe
c:\WorkingDirectory~~> directory that the files are located in

The text that goes in the vbs file.

Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
DesktopPath = Shell.SpecialFolders("Desktop")
Set link = Shell.CreateShortcut(DesktopPath & "\MyFile.lnk")
link.Arguments = "1 2 3"
link.Description = "(Brief Description)"
link.HotKey = "Assign A Hotkey here"
link.IconLocation = "(Myfile.Exe) ,1"
link.TargetPath = "c:\MyFile.exe"
link.WindowStyle = 3
link.WorkingDirectory = "c:\WorkingDirectory"
link.Save


Edit

Here is something else which you can have a look at...

http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.php?t=234891

[Hack]

Moved To Application Deployment

[Susheelss]

Thanks Mr SID for ur reply. But sir I wanted my application software shortcut icon to be placed on the desktop automatically while installing the package of the application software created using package and deployment wizard in vb6.

[techgnome]

Then you need to look at the options of what ever you are using to make your install... generally speaking, they all do that... you just have to tell it.

-tg

[Siddharth Rout]

See if this helps...

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=3650