You can use a Custom action to set a shortcut in the user directory. I am
assuming your installer is per machine, hence all shortcuts are in the general
start menu but you just need one shortcut that must be created in the user
profile?
I see that you got the directory structure(that is for Wind 7 ) but isn't the
start menu different for different windows OS flavors?Win 2003 server has this
structure:
C:\Documents and Settings\<User>\Start Menu\Programs
I did something like this and it worked (but you would have to handle the
deletion manually during uninstall)
WshShell shell = new WshShell();
string shrtcutLnk = "App.lnk";
IWshShortcut MyShortcut;
pathString= Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.StartMenu);
MyShortcut = (IWshShortcut)shell.CreateShortcut(pathString +
shrtcutLnk);
MyShortcut.TargetPath = "";
MyShortcut.Arguments = " ";
MyShortcut.WorkingDirectory = "";
MyShortcut.Description = "Launch blah blah";
MyShortcut.IconLocation = "MyIco.ico";
MyShortcut.Save();
This line of code returns the current users startmenu folder, which in mycase
was:
pathString= Environment.GetFolderPath(Environment.SpecialFolder.StartMenu);
"C:\\Users\\pavan.konduru\\AppData\\Roaming\\Microsoft\\Windows\\Start Menu"
--Pavan
-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Dexter [mailto:[email protected]]
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 <SetDirectory ..../>. That looks cleaner than my custom
action route.
On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:06 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Walt,
> All working for install & uninstall now thanks to your prompting &
> explanation of the directory attribute.
>
> For future reference:-
>
> I also tried using the WindowsVolume supplied property to get to the
> root of things in a drive letter independent way. This resulted in an
> error. I then saw this link by Ravikumar Gopinath:-
>
>
> http://windows-installer-xml-wix-toolset.687559.n2.nabble.com/Error-us
> ing-WindowsVolume-predefined-folder-td3313078.html
>
> So using this seems to provide a drive letter independent solution:-
>
> <SetDirectory Id="WINDOWSVOLUME" Value="[WindowsVolume]"/>
>
> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
> <Directory Id="WINDOWSVOLUME">
> <Directory Id="UsersDir" Name="Users">
> <Directory Id="User1Dir" Name=user1">
> <Directory Id="AppdataDir" Name="Appdata">
> <Directory Id="RoamingDir" Name="Roaming">
> <Directory Id="MicrosoftDir" Name="Microsoft">
> <Directory Id="WindowsDir" Name="Windows">
> <Directory Id="StartmenuDir" Name="Start Menu">
> <Directory Id="ProgramsDir" Name="Programs">
> <Directory Id="StartupDir" Name="Startup">
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
> </Directory>
>
> <DirectoryRef Id ="StartupDir">
> <Component Id="CMP_MyAppStartupShortcut" Guid="GUID Here"
> KeyPath="yes">
>
> <Shortcut Id=" MyAppStartupShortcut " Name="MyApp"
> Description="Launch MyApp"
> Target="[ProgramDir]MyApp.exe" WorkingDirectory="ProgramDir"
> Icon="icon.ico"/>
>
> </Component>
> </DirectoryRef>
>
> Cheers,
> Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Walter Dexter [mailto:[email protected]]
> 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 correct the path...
>
> The problem you're having is that the Directory attribute is supposed
> to be the ID of a directory, not the path to a directory.
>
> Here's how I'm dealing with absolute paths. My standard disclaimer
> with WiX advice is that I first used WiX in November and I still don't
> feel like I know what I'm doing, so there may be a much easier way to do
> anything.
>
>
> <CustomAction Id="CA_SetCDrive" Directory="C_DRIVE" Value="c:\" />
>
> <InstallExecuteSequence>
> <Custom Action="CA_SetCDrive" After="CostFinalize" />
> </InstallExecuteSequence>
>
> <Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
> <Directory Id="C_DRIVE" Name="CDrive"> <Directory Id="DIR_PROGRAMDATA"
> Name="ProgramData" >
> <Directory Id="DIR_MICROSOFT" Name="Microsoft" > <Directory
> Id="DIR_POINTOFSERVICE" Name="Point of Service" >
> <Directory Id="DIR_CONFIGURATION" Name="Configuration" />
> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory> </Directory>
>
> Then, assuming you got all the rest of your values right, you would have:
>
> <Shortcut Id="MYShortcut" Name="MyApp"
> Description="Launch MyApp"
> Target="[ProgramDir]MYApp.exe" WorkingDirectory="ProgramDir"
> Icon="icon.ico" Directory="DIR_CONFIGURATION"/>
>
> and your shortcut would land in c:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Point of
> Service\Configuration. (Not a sensible place to put a shortcut, of
> course, but it's the snippet I could steal easily.)
>
> I assume that you have an <icon .... /> element with Id="icon.ico"
> because I think that's an ID as well. I've never done a shortcut or
> icon in WiX, though. We don't even have the explorer shell running. We
> have a custom shell that has it's own way of doing Startup and RunOnce.
>
> Good luck-
>
> Walt
>
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:47 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello Ilir,
> >
> > Thanks for your response, how do I add a shortcut to that path in
> > WIX (C:\Users\<TheUser>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
> > Menu\Programs\Startup)?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ilir Bekteshi [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 20 February 2014 13:22
> > To: General 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:\Users\<TheUser>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start
> > Menu\Programs\Startup
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:06 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have a kiosk type PC system, that on boot up, automatically logs
> > > on a special restricted user account with a preconfigured password.
> > > My application then launches automatically using a shortcut
> > > present in only that special users Startup folder. The
> > > installation scope is per machine as other users may need to run
> > > the application from time to time for diagnostic purposes. The
> > > application installation is always done using an admin account.
> > >
> > > In the past using VS2010:-
> > >
> > > 1. The solution MS "Setup Project" installed all of the common
> > > features successfully.
> > >
> > > 2. I utilized the MS "Installer Class" which through some c# code
> > > created an application shortcut in the special user's startup
> > > folder during installation and removed it during uninstallation.
> > >
> > > With the demise of the above VS2010 features in later VS versions
> > > I have just over the last two weeks looked at WIX as an alternative.
> > > So far the WIX project will successfully install & uninstall the
> > > common features successfully, that is DLL, EXE files and some
> > > simple all user application shortcuts on the desktop and start menu.
> > >
> > > After searching for ages, I cannot determine how to set a startup
> > > shortcut in just the special user account. From my searches this
> > > does not appear to possible just using the basic WIX.
> > >
> > > I would really appreciate some directional guidance. Maybe a "C#
> > > custom action project" should be used? Or a batch file?
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > > Paul
> > >
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