[RESOLVED] Shortcuts after Setup will not work

I use VS2005 / .NET2.0. When I make a Setup Project and include shortcuts (in the File System Editor) on the desktop and in the start menu, the shortcuts will not start the target application itself (after installation on a second computer), but its uninstaller program.

If I look at the installed shortcuts and look at the "Target" property, I wonder, why there is no reference to the "application.exe" but just "application" - and this property is read-only instead rw.
Seems to be a bug. I remember it worked in the past....

In the vdproj file of the setup project, I find the following details:

...
"Shortcut"
{
"{970C0BB2-C7D0-45D7-ABFA-7EC378858BC0}:_7AE70CA37E57447EBFD5C7DF3FE995F3"
{
"Name" = "8:Shortcut to MyApplication.exe"
"Arguments" = "8:"
"Description" = "8:"
"ShowCmd" = "3:1"
"IconIndex" = "3:0"
"Transitive" = "11:FALSE"
"Target" = "8:_1036745A9F714CD9AB6626164AA4EEBD"
"Folder" = "8:_921D268CB192447EA03F12054637F07A"
"WorkingFolder" = "8:_AFDAE9D6F8284FB9890444DBFB2CDF8E"
"Icon" = "8:"
"Feature" = "8:"
}

There were at least 2 other threads handling the same issue, but without a solution. Any idea?

Moved to Application Deployment

Welcome to the forums. :wave:

What did you use to create your setup file? ClickOnce?

Just the standard VS2005 IDE.

I tried to redo the setup project step by step.

Everything including shortcuts works fine up to the point, where I use Custom Actions. The Custom Actions I added do their job, but afterwards the shortcut is no longer working....

Solved. Why does MS develop bug-removing-editors instead of working on the bugs...

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830612/en-us
(not completely right: replace target in shortcut with e.g. [TARGETDIR]myapp.exe, then it works)