Hi,

I have a standard deployment project for  a vb.net solution.

Until recently the deployment worked fine.

Running the setup.exe (on a different PC) creates a shortcut to the application.exe file.

Lately, after the shortcut is created, when I double click on the shortcut instead of opening the application.exe, the shortcut is starting the setup.exe.

Any idea ?

Cheers

This might happen when after you installed your application.exe you have uninstalled some dependencies of application.exe, so when you click on the application.exe this is trying to reinstall the dependencies.

This setup.exe may not be your program setup, please check and let me know, if still you have any problem.

Hi.

Thanks, but....

I don't uninstall anything. 

If I got to the installation folder and create a shortcut to application.exe manually, it works fine.

If I open the automatically generated shortcut - it opens the setup. 

Cheers,

Hi,

From your description, I understand that you want to create shortcut file for the application that will be installed from Setup project, right?

If so, we can add the shortcut file to your Microsoft Windows Application project and then set the Build Action property to Content. Then, in your Setup project, add the content files from your Windows Application project to the User's Desktop folder.

For more information, please refer to How to add a shortcut file to a Setup project in Visual Studio 2005 or in Visual Studio .NET (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/837220).

I look forward to hearing from you.

Hi there... I have exactly the same problem as you are describing... but with VS2008...

It's been doing my head in for days....  as it was working previously...

Just wondered if you had figured out how to resolve the problem ?

The above post did not help me... been there, read that, tried multiple ways of creating shortcuts in the setup project and modifiying the properties... no joy yet...

If I work it out, then I will post back any help/info here for you...

Cheers,

 Could not find solution so ended up creating a brand new setup project... works fine... shortcuts look the same in this new one but must be something different under the hood...