put application version in shortcut

Question

Hi all,

I'm trying to put the application version number in my shorcut (when you got to start -> all programs you see myapp 1.0.1). I tried to add [version] and [Productversion] to the shortcut name in the setup project but that doesn't work.

Regards, Stijn

Answer 1

First of all it's not a good practice:

Avoid putting a version number in a program name unless that is how users normally refer to your program.

It's better to put the [ProductVersion] somewhere in the WelocmeText label in the 'User Interface' view. Or even better use a decent MSI authoring tools such as WIX which allows you customizing anything that VS installers won't.