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Stu Smith - 17 Nov 2004 16:07 GMT
I use Visual Studio 2003 to create Setup projects for various Access apps
that weren't developed under Visual Studio.  Everything works great except
for the shortcut that I put in the User's Programs Menu.  If, after running
Setup, I create a new shortcut in the same folder, with the same arguments,
it works.

The problem I have is with the shortcut that VS makes.  The Target is
disabled, and only has the Product Name in it.  I can't figure out how to
see what the target is actually doing.  Does anyone know how to get at the
target information?

Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this.
Don McNamara - 19 Nov 2004 13:06 GMT
If you go to DOS and execute the type command, you can see what is in the
shortcut...  not sure if that will help or not.

> I use Visual Studio 2003 to create Setup projects for various Access apps
> that weren't developed under Visual Studio.  Everything works great except
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>
> Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this.
Stu Smith - 22 Nov 2004 17:47 GMT
Thanks for the reply.  I'm using Windows 2000, so I got a command window up,
went to the folder where the shortcut is, and typed
c:\> type documentdb.lnk

It's not an ASCII file, apparently, because it kicks out a couple lines of
junk.

Did I understand you correctly?

> If you go to DOS and execute the type command, you can see what is in the
> shortcut...  not sure if that will help or not.
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> >
> > Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this.
Don McNamara - 23 Nov 2004 20:14 GMT
It's not a great solution, but in the junk somewhere you should see the path
to your executable. (This is why I wasn't sure if it would help you or not.)

> Thanks for the reply.  I'm using Windows 2000, so I got a command window up,
> went to the folder where the shortcut is, and typed
[quoted text clipped - 26 lines]
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance for any light that can be shed on this.

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