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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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"Shallow Folder Structure" InstallShield Option in Visual Studio 2012

I am building a setup project using InstallShield Limited Edition in Visual Studio 2012. The setup build requires some merge modules that ultimately result in a long path name for the build. I am currently using ISProjectFolder as my Release…
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Installshield The specified File key not found in the File table

I've packaged my WinForms app with the Visual Studio Installshield Limited Edition wizard. When installing the app, I get this error during installation. Error 2715. The specified File key ('myappname.xml_serializa') not found in the File table Any…
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InstallShield LE - Relative paths to file

When I add a dependency to my installer, I'm always left with a hard coded path to the file. According to this blog, the only way around this is to manually change the hard coded paths in the ISL file with the ISProjectFolder variable. This isn't…
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Setup InstallShield Limited Edition for VS2010 so it automatically uninstalls previous versions of my application

I am working on a WPF desktop application and I am deploying through an install file generated by InstallShield Limited Edition. I would like the installer to prompt the user and remove any previous versions of the application before installing the…
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InstallShield LE 1001 Error / Installing Windows Service on Windows XP

I got a 1001 error and had fight a lot against it using InstallShield LE (Visual Studio 2013) to deploy a simple Windows Service on Windows XP. Sometimes the error happened, sometimes not.
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ISEXP : warning : -6248: Could not find dependent file libc.dll, or one of its dependencies of component

There are many variations of this question, but my question is specific to libc.dll. I am not concerned on resolving the dependency. I want a work around to avoid that warning. I have 30 projects in my Forms Application. When I publish the setup…
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Customise setup.exe icon from default using InstallShield LE

So I am trying to figure out whether I can add a custom icon to the final install file (setup.exe). Currently, the project is using the InstallShield icon as shown below: I cannot find any field to change to customise the setup.exe icon. Do I need…
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Activate InstallShield 2012 LE (limited edition) on a Team Build machine

As stated in the license agreement, "Flexera Software grants Licensee the right to install and use the software on a single computer to be used exclusively with Visual Studio and the right to install and use up to two (2) additional instances for…
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How to open InstallShield Limited Edition project in Visual Studio 2015?

I have a Visual Studio solution developed in VS 2013. The solution included a setup project bu InstalledShield Limited Edition. Visual Studio 2015 says the setup project is not compatible. I reinstalled InstallShield which didn't didn't help. I…
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How to create a setup.exe file using InstallShield LE for a Visual Studio 2012 Windows Forms Application with SQL Server 2012 Local Database

I am new in programming and I have created a simple Windows Forms Application using Visual Studio 2012 and combined with a SQL Server 2012 Database. I have used Entity Framework simply to call Stored Procedures as in the below example: private void…
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Creating an updateable setup using Install Shield that ships with VS2012

I'm trying to use Install Shield LE to package an distribute a winforms app. This is working well and I even have .net 4.5 redistributable packaged in the setup.exe. The issue I am having is I am now creating a version 1.4 of my app, and I want it…
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InstallShield Limited Edition Error ISEXP : error : -5002: Product Configuration 'Express' is not found in the specified project.

i have developed a application on VisualStudio 2012 and tried InstallShield Limited Edition to build and package the installer. but when i try to build my application i got an error regarding to the InstallShield the error. ISEXP : error : -5002:…
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Target 64-bit program files folder with the latest Install Shield LE

Previous versions of Install Shield Limited Edition have not supported the creation of 64-bit packages, but rumor has it that it now does (see comments under the accepted answer here), as of Visual Studio 2013. I'm using VS 2013 with the latest…
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Why am I getting an Error 1309 : Error reading from file..... when attempting to use a .msi generated by InstallShield in VS 2013?

Error 1309 : Error reading from file..... I am using VS2013 - with latest download of InstallShield Limited Edition From VS2013 -> Solution Explorer -> Installshield Project -> Uninstall/Install: everything is fine. If I run the installer file…
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InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2013 - Installation Error ##IDS_ERROR_7## - ##IDS_ERROR_1####IDS_ERROR_2803##

This is the first time I've tried to use Install Shield LE in Visual Studio. I went through the Project Assistant and basically just turned off almost all of the bells and whistles. No Installation Requirements, no Application Registry entries, and…
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