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Access Application Installer with Shortcut Creation


I use this code to generate shortcuts for the user. In my installer application I have it setup to create a shortcut both on the users desktop, as well as in the users Programs Folder (the one you get to by Clicking Start->Programs)


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It can often be usefull to know what the path is to the users desktop, or his/her My Documents folder. The problem is that these folder paths can be changed by the user. However windows comes with built in support for accessing these values. The function here will let you get that information quite easy.

This will also work regardless of the language setup on the users computer (which is important since this affects the naming of...

I have often had the use to be able to create folders on a users harddrive or network drive to store files in. One of the issues however was if the parent folder did not allready exist the standard built in function MkDir would fail. So I made a custom function which would loop through, and create the directories as needed. It will return a True if the creation is succesfull. I am sure there is room for improvement, so if anyone has something to...

Access Application Installer
This article contains a simple installer I have created and use for distribution of my frontends.


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In the early days, I would install my developed frontends on users computers by simply going by their desktop and copying the frontend over. However when I had to go on paternity leave for 3 months, I needed to make something that would work without my involvement. I came up with...