Setup Program Finishes

[assafey]

Hi,

I have simple questions about my own Setup Program.

How can I make a programtic desktop shortcut for the program .exe file?

How can I add the program to the Add/Remove Programs option?



Thanks!

[Shaggy Hiker]

What are you using for this Setup Program? If you are using a Deployment project, then adding the desktop shortcut is pretty easy, but it rather sounds like that is not what you are doing.

[assafey]

I just made my own Setup Program (not a wizrad or deployment..) for another program that I made.

I want to make a shortcut to the .exe file with my Setup Program and to add the .exe file

to the Add/Remove option.

Can I do it?

[assafey]

Ok,

I solved the shortcut issue by searching for about 3 hours on the web

But do anyone know how to add the program to the Add/Remove programs option?

plzzzz

[assafey]

someone?>

[Negative0]

There is a registry key. I think it is the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall key.

[assafey]

what do you mean? just copyFile my program exe to this path?

[Hack]

Moved To Application Deployment

[assafey]

Isn't it possible to add a program with a vb .net code to the Add/Remove Programs option ????

[Negative0]

Yes, you need to add a value to that registry key. Look at some of the keys already there for an idea of what yours should look like.

[assafey]

I tried this code:

My.Computer.FileSystem.CopyFile(My.Computer.FileSystem.SpecialDirectories.MyDocuments & "\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\MyProg\MyProg\bin\Release\MyProg.exe","HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\MyProg.exe")

I didn't get an error but nothing happand. I didn't see MyProg in the Add/Remove.

What does it mean to add a value?

[Negative0]

Do you know how the registry works? Based on your code, I am guessing not. Read up on the registry, how to read and write to it. If you are making your own setup package, there are probably a lot of times where you will need to know how to use the registry, so it's best to learn it now.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...71(VS.85).aspx

[assafey]

Ok thank you very much!

I'll try to understand that.

If someone knows a code to add a program to the add/remove option I will be Grateful

[gep13]

Hey,

What version of Visual Studio are you using?

Why are you going to the trouble of creating your own version of a Setup Package when you get all of that functionality within the Setup and Depolyment Projects? I can understand the need for it if you have the Express Editions, but this is where something like InnoSetup
comes in.

Gary

[assafey]

I am using VS2008. I know the Setup tool of this version. I just wanted to make my own Setup tool, and the only thing missing in my program is to add the programs that are installing to the Add/Remove.

Thank you for the post.