Application Builder: pin distribution to the taskbar

Hello community,

I have a program I am building an executable file, then an installer.

This installer contains of course the RTE LabVIEW and other things which makes the very broad distribution.

To distribute the patches, I use a second installer I created by making a copy of the first and then deselect the RTE, etc..

This creates a much smaller package and voila, with the exception of a whim:

If the executable file from the original installation is pinned to the taskbar it will stay pinned to the taskbar after patched at ONCE.

But if I build Installer "patch" a second time immediately (even without having to build a new exe) to install this patch will cause pinning break.

I can't understand the settings to keep intact pinning.

Does anyone have experience with this?

Best regards Florian

Hi Florian.

The problem is not directly related to the copy of the installer - this would happen if you rebuilt and then reinstalled the new version of the installer of origin as well. The problem is that version 2 of the installation program performs an action to upgrade MSI on the shortcut file that was installed in version 1.0. This action of upgrade first uninstalls the shortcut file having been pinned after installation of version 1.0, which eliminates so the pin of the Windows taskbar. Upgrade action ends then, by installing the file shortcut again. At this point, there is no pin code, because Windows is not a mechanism to associate the new version of the file with the old version of the file.

Note that the problem does not occur when you install the first version of the copy of the installer, because in this case, the MSI upgrade code is different from the original installer, and no update MSI action (and therefore uninstalling) occurs on the shortcut file. Instead, the MSI file installs just the new shortcut file over the existing, which does not affect the pinning.

To work around this problem, you should consider not installing the shortcut in the copy of your Installer. In this way, you can continue to rebuild the patch without losing the axis that the user does after they installed the original installer.

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