Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Pavan Konduru
gt;>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] >

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Walter Dexter
or the shortcut correctly. That may > (but doesn't seem like it should) a custom action to find the path... but > once the directory is set, let the Windows Installer do the heavy lifting > of actually creating the shortcut. > > -Original Message- > From: Pavan Konduru

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Rob Mensching
olset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. That is not VBscript, it is c# code. -Original Message- From: Bryan Wolf [mailto:brw...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:12 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Pavan Konduru
> > -Original Message- From: Rob Mensching [mailto:r...@robmensching.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:04 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. That is very much

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Pavan Konduru
That is not VBscript, it is c# code. -Original Message- From: Bryan Wolf [mailto:brw...@jackhenry.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 2:12 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. To pi

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Bryan Wolf
oolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. That is very much not a good design. The Windows Installer an create shortcuts just fine. And uninstall them and roll them back and handle all the other scenarios you need to think about when pu

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Rob Mensching
nduru [mailto:pavan.kond...@accelrys.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 12:59 PM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. You can use a Custom action to set a shortcut in the user directory. I am assuming your

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Pavan Konduru
Message- From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 9:56 AM To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. I'll have to look into . That looks cleaner th

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Walter Dexter
KeyPath="yes"> > > Description="Launch MyApp" > Target="[ProgramDir]MyApp.exe" WorkingDirectory="ProgramDir" > Icon="icon.ico"/> > > > > > Cheers, > Paul > >

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread Phill Hogland
Sounds like you got it, but you might also consider using dark.exe to decompile your previous VS create msi and see how it would build the wxs file. I found doing this in certain situations to be instructional as I started to figure out wix. -- View this message in context: http://windows-inst

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread paul.chorley
For my all users installation, this would provide the startup folder for all the users profile. I only needed the startup shortcut for one specified account. Thanks, Paul -Original Message- From: sergey.s.be...@yandex.ru [mailto:sergey.s.be...@yandex.ru] Sent: 21 February 2014 10:54 To:

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-21 Thread paul.chorley
Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Walter Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 16:16 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. I was just coming in to cor

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread Rob Mensching
Just FYI, if you can do it with the Windows Installer you can do it with the WiX toolset. -Original Message- From: paul.chor...@stfc.ac.uk [mailto:paul.chor...@stfc.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 4:07 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Adding Applicati

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread Walter Dexter
ata\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start > Menu\Programs\Startup)? > > Cheers, > Paul > > -Original Message- > From: Ilir Bekteshi [mailto:ilir...@gmail.com] > Sent: 20 February 2014 13:22 > To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Ad

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread paul.chorley
discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. If you want your Shortcut to appear in Startup folder for everyone then put it in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup For a specific user then C:\

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread paul.chorley
tter or an underscore. Cheers, Paul -Original Message- From: Walt Dexter [mailto:wfdex...@gmail.com] Sent: 20 February 2014 13:28 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Cc: Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder. You

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread Walt Dexter
You don't say what OS, but recently in POSReady 7 I achieved this by just putting a shortcut into the specific directory for that user, which if I remember right is under c:/userdata/username/Microsoft/windows/start menu/... If you poke around you'll find it. On XP and earlier, the start menu t

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Application Shortcut to Specific User's Startup Folder.

2014-02-20 Thread Ilir Bekteshi
If you want your Shortcut to appear in Startup folder for everyone then put it in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup For a specific user then C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:06 PM, wrote: > Hello, > >