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.Net InstallShield - Creates broken shortcuts

I've got 2 projects in my solution.

  1. The one is a small win forms project, and
  2. the other, a InstallShield Limited Edition project.

Everything works fine & installs correctly for the most part. The desktop and start menu shortut's get created also with the correct icon... except that that the target & start in properties are blank... and thus the shortcuts are useless.

Normally target should have the reference to the executable, but it seems to be populated with my project name :/

I'm not too sure how I can go about debugging this? Or what would be causing the problem?

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Solution

  • I started going going through the sub steps in the Installer project.

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    Under the 3rd node - Configure the Target System, there is a Shortcuts/Folders item.

    Upon opening you'll see a tree view of where the shortcuts will be created. I selected the desktop shortcut, and noticed that the working directory was not set. I changed it to point to [INSTALLDIR]

    This fixed the problem for me

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