Setting correct icon for Shortcut in VS2010 Setup Project

Question

I have a small app with a setup project. If I create a shortcut to my Primary Output, then this gets a standard Win7 icon and not the icon specified in my exe\'s Application

Answer 1

Very simple way using IWshShortcut (works in .net 2 too):

WshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut MyShortcut = (IWshRuntimeLibrary.IWshShortcut)WshShell.CreateShortcut(fullPathLnk);    
string iconLoc = MyShortcut.IconLocation; // <- example: "c:\icon.ico,0"

I use to check if iconLoc still exists, fix if not, you can use to find and read icon file, etc etc