Deployment
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Visual Studio 2022 Setup Project installs Menu and Desktop Shortcuts but then deletes them.
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Philip Dodd
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I have just upgraded to a new Windows 11 Desktop and Visual Studio 2022.
I am going through all my Visual Basic 2008 applications and updating them in VS 2022.
With several of them, when I run the Setup.exe, I can see the desktop shortcut being created but just before the end of the installation it is then deleted again. The menu item which should also be installed is not there.
Running the Setup.exe again and selecting the repair option then puts the desktop shortcut and the menu item back.
Where am I going wrong?
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RLWA32 47,256 Reputation points2025-02-19T17:15:24.8333333+00:00 Assuming that any prerequisites are already installed on your system Setup.exe is not needed. You may be able to obtain some diagnostic information by running msiexec.exe with logging options to install your .msi file. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/standard-installer-command-line-options
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