Application Shortcuts

At last I have a BETA version of my first .net application. I am encountering a problem with application shortcuts. I created a setup project and installation works fine except that the shortcuts created will try to install the program everytime I double click on them. Creating a shortcut manually will solve the problem.

What I am doing is

1. Build a release version into the bin folder.
2. Run dotfuscator and save the applic.exe to a folder c:\ToRelease containing all my files that will go into the setup.

3. Create a setup project
4. Define a folder to be c:\program files\my app
5. add all files in the ToRelease folder to folder defined in 4
6. Create shortcuts for applic.exe with the properties as

folder: User Desktop
Target: applic (From select item in project)
Working Folder: my app (From select folder)

I repeat the same as 5 for the User's program menu

The shortcuts will be created fine on installation but before running the application they seem to run install again, altough no prompts appear. If I rename the Release folder where the setup is saved the shortcuts will fail with an error. It seems that the shortcut will point to the setup program instead.

I am testing this on Win2000

Any help is appreciated.

If you check the target path of your shortcut (from your install) it won't give you the exact path to the exe as it would if you created the shortcut manually. I came across this same problem recently.

My Solution: Orca

http://www.dotnetforums.net/t76225.html

Many thanks to you VBCrazyCoder

I will give it a try

Use a better install system like Inno Setup.