place exe on desktop or start menu

[sameerpandurangi]

Hello forum,

I am using VS2005 and created a small application.
It's working fine and now i want to install the application in my client machine.
I create a setup file using the setup wizard.
Now the problem is after instillation my client want's the exe file on in desktop or in the start menu.
I tried a lot but all in vein??????

So anyone who can help me out?

Thankyou in advance

 

[Paszt]

If your client is asking to put the exe on the desktop or start menu, chances are they either don't know what they are talking about or are miscommunicating the request. It is more common to place a shortcut to the exe on the desktop and/or start menu and to place the exe in it's proper folder in the program files directory.
There are so many tutorials out there to accomplish that. Here's one: Visual Studio Windows Application Setup Project
Basically what you do is to use the File System Editor to add a shortcut to the primary output of the project you want to deploy.

 

[Paszt]

I just noticed that this was posted in the ASP.NET category. Since you are asking about an exe I think this is referring to a winform application so this thread has been moved to a more relevant category.