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InstallShield is a software tool for creating installers or software packages. InstallShield is primarily used for installing software for Microsoft Windows desktop and server platforms, but it can also be used to manage software applications and packages on a variety of handheld and mobile devices

This is newer version of installshield which was released in 2004 some of the new features are

1)Updated Microsoft .NET Object for InstallScript Projects

2)Updated Windows Installer Object for InstallScript Projects

3)Support for Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.0 and SSL

4)Windows Embedded CE 6.x Support

5)Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone Support

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installation without showing command prompt

i have made a installer with installshield 2008 . main problem is , while installation through setup.exe , command prompt appears several time in this procedure. for convenience of end user i need to remove command prompt during installation. i read…
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Installshield not stopping service during minor upgrade

In my installer I have a component that installs an NT service. I have a problem that during minor upgrade the service is not stopped. I observed the log generate by installshield during upgrade and it reports it is doing the action StopServices and…
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X64 installer using Won64 node registry

I am using InstallShield 2008 premium edition. I created one basicMSI project only to target x64 platforms. I changed summary property to "x64". But this installer is writing registry entries in…
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Read app.config file in Installscript

I wan to know that how to read connection string from app.config using installshield es, though there is an option to import the app.config file XML structure but the problem is the section of the connection is being updated at runtime. During…
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Installshield doesn't display the correct language

I am using InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition and I have created a multilanguage setup. When I install the setup in language other than English (e.g. in French) it clearly shows all labels and messages correctly. The problem starts when I run the…
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how to change checkbox property in installscript?

ive made dialog that shows two checkboxes. i made the dialog with AskOptions function, like this : nResult = AskOptions(NONEXCLUSIVE,szProduct , "Install Client", Client, "Install Server",Server); now, i…
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How to prevent Installshield from removing files?

I am developing a package using Installshield 2008 Primer Edition and Project type is Installscript MSI project. The problem I am facing is during installation I am installing some of the files to the following location C:\Program…
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Can't find IISROOTFOLDER on Windows Server 2008

I'm using installshield to install my website to IIS, it works fine on windows server 2003, but while running on windows server 2008, it raise an error saying: Error 1606. Could not access network location {IISROOTFOLDER}. How can I fix this…
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InstallShield-2008 + Windows 7

We are using Install Shield 2008 (I know its pretty old as per Install Shield standards) for creating setup for our applications and it has been working fine till now. Recently we encountered an issue where on performing a major upgrade it creates…
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Preventing Installation of Lower Version over Higher Version

We have developed the project using InstallScript MSI Project in Installshield 2008 Premier Edition. In the project we have added a condition so that the older version should not be installed on Higher version. The problem we are facing is consider…
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Make an existing Installshield 2008 package msi that runs on xp 32bits run on windows7 64 bit?

I want to make an existing Installshield 2008 package msi that runs on xp 32bits run on windows7 64 bit??? Can anyone tell me how I can do so cause this is the first time for me to use InstallShield :(
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"Msiexec REINSTALL=ALL REINSTALLMODE=vamus" is not cleaning old entries

I created an installer "test.msi" . It is version-1. test.msi contains 2 components "comp1", "comp2" comp1 contains 2 files "comp1_file1", "comp1_file2" In version 2 of test.msi , --> a new component added "comp3". It contains 1 file…
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InstallShield 2008 setup will run on Windows Server 2012

I have InstallShield 2008 project which is for website and database installer currently it is working fine on Windows Server 2003 I would like to run same setup into Windows Server 2012 will it run?
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Location of files from extracted installshield setup.exe

I have a Installshield Basic MSI project. This project uses Installshield's bootstrapper to install several setup prerequisites. Everything is bundled and compressed inside a single exe (Setup.exe). I have one prerequisite that needs to know the…
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Control Order of SQL Scripts in Install Shield

How do you control the order to run SQL scripts in Install Shield 2008? I moved the one I want to run first on the script list, but it seems to not be running.
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