I've been trying to clean up the installer I created using vb 2005 as best as possible to finalize a project I am working on. I have my installer deploying a .pdf file in the application folder. I want the installer to create a shortcut to that .pdf file in the start menu. I do this by right clicking on the .pdf file that I have included on the setup project in the application folder of the files system editor and making a shortcut. After that I move the shortcut to the user's program menu. Here is the slight issue: the setup does create the link properly and I can click on it and the .pdf will come up, but for some reason the .pdf icon does not show up properly. The icon looks like the sheet of paper with blue lines on is that is standard in vb.
Instead of making a shortcut to the file, if I make a second full copy of the .pdf file and put it in the user's program menu folder, the installer will install properly but this time the icon is the expected .pdf icon. I would prefer not to do this because its not really a robust solution.
Surely there is a way to make a proper shortcut and I am just doing it incorrectly, or maybe its just that the windows installer package is incapable of doing this properly. My company will probably not be dishing out for the install-shield or some other package any time soon so I was hoping I might be able to get some input from the vb 2005 pros on this forum.