Installer shortcuts do not work

[GeekJosh]

After installing with the Squirrel generated setup.exe, my app is successfully installed to %localappdata%\appname\version

However, a copy of the exe (and an additional exe in the package) is placed in %localappdata%\appname, and this is the exe that the shortcut points to.

If I manually run the exe in the version folder, the app works as expected.

What am I doing wrong?

I'm using a VS build script and nuspec file to generate releases at build

<Target Name="AfterBuild" Condition=" '$(Configuration)' == 'Release'">
    <GetAssemblyIdentity AssemblyFiles="$(TargetPath)">
      <Output TaskParameter="Assemblies" ItemName="myAssemblyInfo" />
    </GetAssemblyIdentity>
    <Exec Command="nuget pack appname.nuspec -Version %(myAssemblyInfo.Version) -Properties Configuration=Release -OutputDirectory $(OutDir) -BasePath $(OutDir)" />
    <Exec Command="squirrel --releasify $(OutDir)appname.%(myAssemblyInfo.Version).nupkg" />
  </Target>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<package xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/packaging/2010/07/nuspec.xsd">
  <metadata>
    <id>appname</id>
    <!-- version will be replaced by MSBuild -->
    <version>0.0.0</version>
    <title>appname</title>
    <authors>company</authors>
    <description>appname</description>
    <requireLicenseAcceptance>false</requireLicenseAcceptance>
    <copyright>Copyright 2016</copyright>
    <dependencies />
  </metadata>
  <files>
    <file src="*.*" target="lib\net45\" exclude="*.pdb;*.nupkg;*.vshost.*"/>
    <file src="**\*.*" target="lib\net45\"  exclude="*.pdb;*.nupkg;*.vshost.*"/>
  </files>
</package>

EDIT: further investigation reveals that my app does start but crashes. This appears to be due to the exe being started outside the program folder (although the shortcut's "Start In" parameter is set). I realize this is outside the scope of being a Squirrel issue now, but I have to imagine I'm not the only one who's come across this problem whilst using Squirrel. Does anybody know how to solve this (or even where to start looking)?

EDIT2: closing this issue as it's misleading

[aasiddiq]

@GeekJosh I have a similar issue. Did you get a resolution for this? It would be great if you share it.

[GeekJosh]

@goldsmit409 check your system's event log - if you see an error entry for your app that mentions BEX, then I believe it's because the latest version of squirrel/nuget doesn't support revision numbers in your version number. I adapted the demo script to build my app with 3 part version numbers and this solved the issue.

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