7 replies to this topic

[antyagi]

Hello everyone,

I have ICE43 & ICE57 error in my project and I am unable to understand how to resolve these. Please help.

thanks,
ankur tyagi

[Glytzhkof]

The easiest fix for ICE43 is to set your shortcuts to be advertised (if you can).

ICE57 checks that components install either to per-user or per-machine locations (not both). For example don't include both entries for HKCU and HKLM or include both userprofile and per machine files. In certain cases setting shortcuts advertised fixes this problem too.

[antyagi]

Glytzhkof, In case, If I can not create advertised shortcut what could be the way?

[Gareth at Serif]

Unfortunately, validation for ICE57 is really dumb. If you're trying to make an optional shortcut oin the Desktop (a potentially per-user location) you will always get the validation error until you create an HKCU keypath. This means that each additional user to run the app will be greated with a repair - not the best user experience!

You can trick the validation by setting a different directory definition to equal "DesktopFolder" in a CA and create the shortcut in your custom defined location (which always equals that of the desktop). Now, validation doesn't think your directory could exist in a per-user location and you can leave your component with an HKLM key path and give your users a nice experience.

Best of luck,
Gareth

[antyagi]

For now I have removed those shortcuts from MSI and creating them thru a CA (C++ code). Looks like everything is working fine, even shortcuts gets deleted on uninstall thanks to RemoveFile table.
But I doubt that this may fail during some per user install scenario. Do you have some idea to handle that?

[Gareth at Serif]

Your CA should define the target folder of your shortcut depending on the value of the ALLUSERS property within the MSI database. You can read the correct values of the folder paths from the registry.

The Desktop folder, for example:
[HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
Common Desktop=<path1>
[HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
Desktop=<path2>

So, if ALLUSERS=1, set your desktop shortcut destination to <path1> and if ALLUSERS=2 then set your desktop shortcut destination to <path2>. You should probably have an else option in case the code falls out the bottom, and default to the permachine location.

You can do something similar for any other system folder based path.

Hope that helps,
Gareth

Edited by Gareth at Serif, 20 June 2007 - 15:41.

[Gareth at Serif]

Good news!

We've just had conformatino that ICE57 will be removed from the next Vista Certification document.

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