Hi!

I'm very confused with this issue, I can't belive that in the 2008 year there isn't yet a way to disable advertised shortcuts in the installers, then must be that I cant get see it! Because there's a option to put things in the SendTo folder... and this folder is for one purpose only... have to exists a option to get runs it well... or I think that...

I need create a shortcut in the user SendTo folder, but the shortcut that the msi creates ... is a advertised shortcut and doesn't work

http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gtg120z/onenote/ShortcutsinSetup.html
http://jtbworld.blogspot.com/2007/11/enable-target-and-change-icon-of.html

So, this links explains how to use Orca (there's Orca for .net3.5?) for edit the msi, or how to pass parameters to the installer... and other madness... But... is imposible do it with Visual Studio??

Cheers.

There's no IDE support in Visual Studio setup projects to turn off advertised shortcuts so there is no answer except to use Orca or a post-build step to add DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1to the Property table in the MSI file. It works on the command line if you;d rather so that: msiexec /i <path to your msi> DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1

I think you may be assuming that Visual Studio setups have support for all the features in Windows Installer, but they don't. If you want to control that type of detail, or build your own UI forms, create multiple features, run custom actions off buttons in the UI and so on then use a tool that supports that functionality (WiX, Wise, InstallShield, Advanced Installer, just to name a few other tools that create MSI files).

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Phil Wilson

It's amazing that this post has 1328 views and no answers.

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.: Valeriano Tórtola :.: http://www.vtortola.net :.

There's no IDE support in Visual Studio setup projects to turn off advertised shortcuts so there is no answer except to use Orca or a post-build step to add DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1to the Property table in the MSI file. It works on the command line if you;d rather so that: msiexec /i <path to your msi> DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1

I think you may be assuming that Visual Studio setups have support for all the features in Windows Installer, but they don't. If you want to control that type of detail, or build your own UI forms, create multiple features, run custom actions off buttons in the UI and so on then use a tool that supports that functionality (WiX, Wise, InstallShield, Advanced Installer, just to name a few other tools that create MSI files).

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Phil Wilson

That's what I wanted, a way of do it or know that is not possible.

thanks.

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.: Valeriano Tórtola :.: http://www.vtortola.net :.

Hi,

Using VS2005 there is a prototype msi file in the common7\tools\deployment\vsdschema directory called schema.msi. This prototype is used in the consecutive generation of your deployment msi file.
It's read only so first you have to change that. Then you can use orca to add DISABLEADVTSHORTCUTS=1
to the Property table. So fromthen on all your msi files willcreate the standard shortcut. I suppose VS2008 use the same mechanism.