Questions tagged [installshield-le]

InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio. Latest support of InstallShield LE is for Visual Studio 2015.

InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010/2012 is a free tool for Visual Studio customer that serves as a replacement for the now deprecated Visual Studio Deployment Projects. InstallShield LE provides a small subset of the functionality found in the other InstallShield editions. Many of the features in InstallShield are locked and unavailable. Therefore it is helpful to tag questions as such.

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InstallShield LE - Is it possible to create a pure web setup project. If so, how?

I have begun the hard work of converting an old Web Setup project to InstallShield LE. So I have been searching around on how to do this. And my GOD how messy it is. I did follow one of those guides. It seems I have to install some dummy data to…
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Installshield Express write to registry during install

is it possible to access entered information during install later in my application? Can i write this to registry and how ? thanks
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Create silent installation using Installshield Limited Edition

I want to create a Silent installation for MS SqlExpress; how can i create a Silent Installation just by one window and install SQLExpress 2008 using InstallShield?
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Trouble making an installer- File not found

I have made an application and want to distribute it to my friends. I can't do Clickonce because, my application needs command line arguments and I have heard that Clickonce apps can't accept command line arguments. To make the setup I used the…
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Installsheild, get rid of all files from the install directory?

I have an application which on install, will unpackage 3 files (1 x .exe, 2 x DLL's). When I run the application, it pulls down files (around the 300 mark) from binary fields in SQL and converts them to files and places them in the install…
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JRE 7 issue : Java Plug-in directory is not visible

I have installed jre 7 and in the installshield wizard REG_JAVA_IE_PLUGIN_ROOT variable is not picking the location of java plugin.The value for REG_JAVA_IE_PLUGIN_ROOT=SOFTWARE\JavaSoft\Java Plug-in\ in the registry file . How to resolve the issue…
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InstallShield LE - Install project depending on framework

In VS 2012, is it possible at all to have 1 solution with: 1 setup project using the InstallSHield Limited Edition 1 WPF project for the framework 4.5 1 WPF project for the framework 4.0 1 WPF project for the framework 3.5 And have the…
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InstallShield LE 2012 ToolsVersion Defaults to 3.5, TFS Automated Build fails

Is there any way to change an InstallShield LE 2012 project so that it always defaults to MSBuild ToolsVersion 4.0? I'm seeing that when I leave it set to 3.5, my automated builds fail in TFS. When I set it manually with notepad to 4.0, it works…
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Need to add custom file extension to registry from Visual Studio InstallShield LE

I've been able to add custom file extensions by using: Project >> Properties >> Publish >> Options >> File Associations in the past. However I much prefer to use InstallShield as my installer as opposed to Click Once applications (my users find this…
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How to get to the "Properties" dialogue for the Primary Output of a Windows Service in InstallShield LE / VS 2012?

I'm trying to set up an InstallShield LE installer for a Windows Service. I'm using VS 2012 Premium and InstallShield LE. I'm looking at this SO question ... How do i create an InstallShield LE project to install a windows service? The accepted…
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error catastrophic failure installshield 2012

I am using installshield LE 2012 for visual studio to create a installable file for my problem written in VB on .NET. While my problem requires a third party driver to be installed first. So I added to run it as a custom action during installation…
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Audio not playing in the wpf application installed via Installshield LE using VS2012

I am playing an audio using the MediaElement. The MediaElement is created as followed in XAML: The audio is…
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InstallShield: cannot extract icon with index 0 (for dummies)

Yes I did my homework first. And I'm still stuck. First let me express my irritation at Microsoft for deprecating the Installer project type. Shame on them. Back to my issue, Here is the error: Error 3 -3204: Cannot extract icon with index 0…
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Install Shield limited edition setup (Rolling back)

I have just finished creating an installer using Install Shield Limited edition. My Install shield project compiles without any errors. However, when I run the setup file, after it has copied the program files into the target folder, the installer…
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Installing .NET application with database

finally, with the help of Stackoverflow, i managed to finished my project. the last problem that i encountered is during installation. i created my installer using installshield limited edition. the installer includes .net 2.0 sp2, .net 4.0,…
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