I have an app that is being installed with WiX 3 - most of the install works fine by now, but trying to get the desktop shortcut to work seems to cost me my mind...
I have my app being installed and I already have a shortcut on the Start Menu folder - works just fine. But how do I get the desktop shortcut up and running?
<Product Id="*" Name="....." UpgradeCode="MY-GUID">
<Package Id="*" InstallerVersion="200" Compressed="yes" />
<Media Id="1" Cabinet="foobar.cab" EmbedCab="yes" />
<Property Id="ALLUSERS">1</Property>
<Directory Id="TARGETDIR" Name="SourceDir">
<Directory Id="ProgramMenuFolder">
<Directory Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder" Name="FooBar"/>
</Directory>
<Directory Id="DesktopFolder" SourceName="Desktop"/>
<Directory Id="ProgramFilesFolder">
<Directory Id="FoobarDir" Name="FOOBAR">
<Directory Id="INSTALLLOCATION" Name="FooApp">
<Component Id="MainFiles" Guid=".....">
<File Id="FooMainApp" Source="FooMainApp.exe" />
</Component>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
</Directory>
....
<!-- this shortcut here works just fine ... -->
<DirectoryRef Id="ApplicationProgramsFolder">
<Component Id="AppShortcut" Guid="...">
<Shortcut Id="ApplicationStartMenuShortcut"
Name="FooBarApp" Description="..."
Target="[INSTALLLOCATION]FooMainApp.exe"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
<!-- but this shortcut here never seems to work .. ... -->
<DirectoryRef Id="DesktopFolder">
<Component Id="DesktopShortcut" Guid="....." >
<Shortcut Id="DesktopAppShortcut"
Advertise="no"
Name="FooBarApp" Description="...."
Target="[INSTALLLOCATION]FooMainApp.exe"
WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION"/>
</Component>
</DirectoryRef>
The errors I keep getting are:
ICE18: KeyPath for Component: 'DesktopShortcut' is Directory: 'DesktopFolder'. The Directory/Component pair must be listed in the CreateFolders table.
ICE38: Component DesktopShortcut installs to user profile. It must use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file.
ICE43: Component DesktopShortcut has non-advertised shortcuts. It should use a registry key under HKCU as its KeyPath, not a file.
I do not understand what on earth WiX 3 / Windows Installer is trying to tell me here.... anyone??
Both components, AppShortcut
and DesktopShortcut
, are in fact part of the "main" feature - I don't see any issue there. I can't figure out what on earth could be wrong here....
Update: ok, so I added some registry key stuff to my desktop shortcut
<Component Id="DesktopShortcut" Guid="BF3587B4-F52E-411E-8814-CFCBF8201C0D">
<RegistryKey Root="HKCU" Key="Software\Foo Inc\FooBarApp\Installed"
Action="createAndRemoveOnUninstall">
<RegistryValue Name="DTSC" Value="1" Type="integer" KeyPath="yes"/>
</RegistryKey>
<Shortcut Id="DesktopShortcut" Directory="DesktopFolder"
Name="FooBar" WorkingDirectory="INSTALLLOCATION"
Icon="foobar.ico"
Target="[INSTALLOCATION]FooMainApp.exe"/>
</Component>
now the ICE messages are gone, but when I try to install the app, I get Error 1909 - the target folder doesn't exist, or you do not have permission to write to it (or something like that)
Update 2: the above sample code provided does work on Win XP, but it keeps failing on Win Server 2003 :-( Any further ideas??
Here's a working example from our live production code...
<Fragment>
<Component Id="DesktopShortcut" Directory="APPLICATIONFOLDER" Guid="*">
<RegistryValue Id="RegShortcutDesktop" Root="HKCU"
Key="SOFTWARE\ACME\settings" Name="DesktopSC" Value="1"
Type="integer" KeyPath="yes" />
<Shortcut Id="desktopSC" Target="[APPLICATIONFOLDER]MyApp.exe"
Directory="DesktopFolder" Name="My Application"
Icon="$(var.product).ico" IconIndex="0"
WorkingDirectory="APPLICATIONFOLDER" Advertise="no"/>
</Component>
</Fragment>