Setup Created in Visual Studio 2008 Not Working

Question

I have a problem which is that I have a desktop application that is running fine in Visual Studio 2008, I create a setup project and I'm sure that I did it in a correct way exactly like the steps here.

After I get the setup project it says it installed successfully however when I double click on the desktop shortcut nothing happens. Please note that I'm using .NET 2.0 and Windows 2000, I also have another version of this application that is using .NET 3.5 and it works fine on Windows 7 and any other Windows version that is compatible with .Net 3.5. Any idea as to what is happening?

Answer 1

Had something similar before. In my case it was because of a missing dependency.

Take a look at the eventviewer. Maybe you can also find some details there.