microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.setup

Phil Wilson

12/14/2006 9:15:00 PM

If links means shortcuts, have you tried right-clicking your exe, create
shortcut, then moving that shortcut to a folder in the user's start menu in
the File System view?
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Phil Wilson
[Microsoft MVP - Windows Installer]
<marcussilfver@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1166021726.022256.136250@j72g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>I use VS2003 and am trying to have my setup project adding some links
> to the startmenu. The links should be a MS Word document and an exe
> file.
> But I can't seem to get this right!
>
> I tried to follow the tutorial on
> http://www.support.microsoft.com....
>
> The problem is that I need to have the links point to locations that
> are based on where the user chooses to install my application. As it is
>
> now (after having followed the tutorial) they point to a specific
> folder on MY computer. I thought of the idea to lay the physical files
> on a startmeny/myApp folder. But then I realised that the startmenu
> doesn't have to be on drive C for all users installing my application.
>
> Does someone got an idea how to do this?
>
> thanks
>