Visual studio installer

Hello,

I have a couple of questions regarding the Visual studio installer.

1. How do you know/control which serialnumbers are valid?
I’ve added the “customer information” dialog to my install dialogs and it shows up fine when I run the installation. But how do I specify the serialnumber that the customer is supposed to enter? By chance I found out that the correct serialnumber is “012-3456789”, but I didn’t specify that anywhere. In the properties for the “customer information” dialog there is this thing called “serialnumber template” and the value for it is: “12345<### -%%%%%%%>@@@@@”. I know that it is the masking template for the Masked edit control in the dialog, but does it have anything to do with the actual serialnumber?
And you must me able to use multiple serialnumbers, right? Because you don’t want to rebuild the setup-file with a unique serialnumber for every customer. (at least I don’t… :)

2. Is it possible to let the user select where in the start menu he want to place the shortcuts?
Or how do you make sure the shortcut is placed in “startmenu->programs” regardless of the language of the operating system?

I feel like I must be missing something here, I’m sure there’s a simple solution to all this.

Thankful for any answers.
Xplorer