In my Basic MSI project I go to Direct Editor and select the Icon table. I click in the table and create a new record. I specify a name for the icon: AppIcon.exe I click in the binary table and point to a .ico file. I then press F7 to build my setup. After the setup builds I open my MSI using Orca and check the Icon table and the Icon is not listed.
What am I missing to get these icons placed in the setup? I checked the MSDN article on the Icon table and nothing there stands out to me.
I can add the icon in question to the binary table without any problems. However, it seems I am missing something significant for the icon table. Basically I am trying to add the icons to the icon table at design time so that I can dynamically create new shortcuts at runtime based on product features installed.
I just created a new test project. Unless the icon is associated with a component somewhere it appears that InstallShield is dropping the entry from the table.
If this is a design decision on the part of InstallShield I consider it a pretty poor design decision.
