App.exe is present there in INSTALLOCACTION. Thanks got it working
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From: ricky sundrani [mailto:rickysundr...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 1:07 PM
To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.
Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creating desktop and start menu shortcuts
1)For the startmenu shortcut you need to list ProgramMenuDir into the
RemoveFolder table.
see the link:
http://robmensching.com/blog/posts/2007/4/27/How-to-create-an-uninstall-
shortcut-and-pass-all-the
2) The purpose of creating a registry entry under HKCU is to use it as a
keypath to keep ICE happy, but you have not set the keypath=Yes for both
the
registryValue elements.
The code for shoortcut seems to be correct,depending on the directory
hierarchy you are using.
Target="[INSTALLOCATION]App.exe">
Is the App.exe present in the INSTALLLOCATION or some nested folder.?
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Alex Wernecke
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> Hi,
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> I'm having some trouble successdully creating shortcuts on the desktop
> and in the start menu. Here is my code :
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> Guid="D92F6731-4EB0-4707-A71A-BB02DEA46689">
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>Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall">
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>Name="App.ico" WorkingDirectory="INSTALLOCATION" Icon="App.ico"
> Target="[INSTALLOCATION]App.exe">
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> Guid="0FA5BEEC-C72D-44c7-9E27-44C16A26F025">
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> Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall">
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> Name="App.ico" WorkingDirectory="INSTALLOCATION" Icon="App.ico"
> Target="[INSTALLOCATION]App.exe">
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> The desktop shortcut appears but the target is wrong. The start menu
> shortcut just doesn't seem to work.
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> Many thanks,
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> Alex
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