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Unicode is the default type for all new patch configurations and QuickPatch packages. Use this command-line parameter to generate a log file for debugging.

This type of custom action calls a public method in a. NET assembly that is written in managed code such as Visual Basic. NET or C. InstallShield now includes support for creating an installation that allows an. Use the new Multiple Instances tab for a product configuration in the Releases view to define different instances of your product and configure the properties that are associated with each instance.

At build time, InstallShield creates a product code—changing instance transform for each instance and streams the instance transforms into the. At run time, the setup launcher displays a new instance selection dialog that lets end users specify whether they want to install a new instance, or update or maintain an already installed instance. In addition, if you build a patch in the Patch Design view for a product whose installation includes multiple-instance support, InstallShield now creates a patch that enables end users to update a specific instance or all instances.

At run time, the Update. This option lets you specify which instance you want to install, update, or uninstall; it also lets you suppress the instance selection dialog. InstallShield now includes many new. In addition, an updated Microsoft. This object includes support for versions 3. NET Framework, including bit, bit x64, and bit Itanium versions.

The object also includes all supported language packs, as well as the Web downloader redistributables where available. InstallShield includes several new tools:. The Premier edition also includes a separate installation and extra licenses that let you install just the tools, without InstallShield , on separate machines. If you build a release that uses a Setup. The default compression level that InstallShield uses offers a balance between file size and time that is required to extract the compressed files at run time.

If you want to change the compression level or you do not want to use any compression, you can override the default level through a machine-wide setting. By default, InstallShield does not compress any files that have a. You can modify this default compression exclusion list to include other file types or specific files as needed. The exclusion list is a machine-wide setting.

For example, the maximum size of a single. In addition, some users have had trouble signing large. To work around these limitations, InstallShield now has a new default limit of MB for a.

When InstallShield is creating the. You can modify the maximum size limit if necessary. In addition, if you do not want InstallShield to create multi-part. In addition, it is applicable only if you are building a compressed network image release in which all of the files are embedded in the single-file. This functionality does not apply to custom compression, where only the files that are associated with one or more features are compressed into.

For more information, see Configuring the Maximum Size for. End users click a browse button in one of your dialogs, and this launches the Open dialog. The Open dialog lets the end user browse for a file. When the end user selects the file and clicks the Open button, the Open dialog closes, and the installation writes the full path and file name in an edit field on the dialog.

This custom action calls the FileBrowse. In addition, you must add an edit field control and the browse button that launches the Open dialog, and set a related dialog event. For complete instructions, see Launching a File Open Dialog.

InstallShield now lets you create and manage IIS 7 Web sites, virtual directories, Web service extensions, and application pools on Windows Server systems.

InstallShield now lists the 5. Previously, it was necessary to create a custom version requirement. InstallShield is now integrated with Visual Studio , enabling development of installations and products within the same Visual Studio interface.

NET , or Visual Studio. NET setup project. NET merge module project. Converting these Visual Studio projects to InstallShield projects enables you to modify the layout of dialogs through a visual Dialog Editor, manage features and components, and use other functionality that is available in InstallShield. InstallShield now includes support for Arabic Saudi Arabia and Hebrew languages, which are written and read from right to left.

All of the default end-user dialog strings are available in these languages. Since these languages are read from right to left, InstallShield also includes support for mirroring Arabic and Hebrew dialogs; that is, InstallShield uses a right-to-left layout for Arabic and Hebrew dialogs.

Thus, for example, buttons that are on the right side of dialogs in English and other left-to-right languages are moved to the left side of right-to-left-language dialogs. In addition, InstallShield uses mirror-image versions of the dialog images that are displayed for the built-in dialog themes.

The right-to-left layouts and reversed images are used in the Dialog Editor pane in the Dialogs view of InstallShield, and also at run time. The Premier edition now includes support for 35 different languages. When you build a project that includes an InstallScript file.

When you add or modify a dynamic file link in your project, you can now specify which component creation method you want InstallShield to use: a new best practice method, or the previously available one-component-per-directory method. When best practices for component creation are followed, InstallShield creates a separate component for each portable executable PE file in the dynamically linked folder and sets each PE file as the key file of its component.

If you later want to create a patch that updates one of the dynamically linked PE files, it is easier to do so than it would be if you had used the one-component-per-directory method. Previously, any time that you added dynamic file links to a project, InstallShield automatically created one component for all of the dynamically linked files at build time. However, if your dynamic file link included PE files, Windows Installer best practices for component creation were not followed.

By default, InstallShield considers the following file types to be PE files:. You can modify this list through the new File Extensions tab on the Options dialog box. The automation interface includes support for this new best practice method.

The ISWiDynamicFileLinking object includes a new CreateBestPracticeComponents property that lets you specify whether you want to use the best practice method, or the previously available one-component-per-directory method for a dynamic file link. When you create a new dynamic file link using the AddDynamicFileLinking method, the best practice method is used by default. If a target system needs one or more setup prerequisites to be installed, the setup prerequisite dialog is displayed at run time before the main installation runs.

The Behavior tab in the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor has a new check box that lets you specify whether you want a setup prerequisite to be hidden from the list of prerequisites in the prerequisite dialog. If a prerequisite is hidden, it is installed when the conditions require it, even though it is not listed as one of the prerequisites that needs to be installed.

New prerequisites and existing prerequisites that were created before this functionality was available are not hidden by default.

You can change this behavior by selecting the new check box on the Behavior tab. The Behavior tab in the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor has a new check box that lets you specify whether you want the prerequisite installation to show installation progress messages from Windows Installer at run time. This augments the progress bar to reflect the current progress status of the. This functionality is available only if the prerequisite launches an. For new prerequisites and existing prerequisites that were created before this functionality was available, the progress is not shown by default.

Note that if you specify that you want to show the progress, only some of the available command-line parameters are supported. The new feature prerequisites include command-line support for any Windows Installer property, including the aforementioned properties. The Behavior tab of the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor is where you specify how an InstallShield prerequisite installation should proceed if it appears that the target machine needs to be restarted.

The If the prerequisite appears to need a reboot list is where you specify the behavior. It is installed if a feature that contains the prerequisite is installed and if the prerequisite is not already installed on the system. Including InstallShield prerequisites in your project enables you to chain multiple installations together, bypassing the Windows Installer limitation that permits only one Execute sequence to be run at a time.

The Setup. The Redistributables view is where you add InstallShield prerequisites to a project and specify whether you want them to run before your main installation or be associated with one or more features in your main installation. Previously, all InstallShield prerequisite installations were run before the main installation ran, and the InstallShield prerequisites could not be associated with any features. This type of prerequisite, which is still available, is called a setup prerequisite.

InstallShield includes several new billboard-related features that give you more flexibility and control over the look and feel of the file transfer portion of your installation:. Flash application files can consist of videos, movies, sounds, interactive interfaces, games, text, and more—anything that is supported by the.

The Billboards view in InstallShield is where you add billboard files, configure billboard-related settings, and preview billboards. InstallShield includes several InstallShield prerequisite files. Ability to Create Unicode Versions of the Setup. Previously, if your project included a setup launcher, InstallShield always built an ANSI version; it did not include support for building a Unicode version.

A Unicode setup launcher can correctly display double-byte characters in the user interface of the setup launcher, regardless of whether the target system is running the appropriate code page for the double-byte-character language.

An ANSI setup launcher displays double-byte characters in the setup launcher dialogs if the target system is running the appropriate code page. However, it displays garbled characters instead of double-byte characters in those dialogs if the target system is not running the appropriate code page. Use the new Setup Launcher Type setting on the Setup.

Unicode is the default type for all new Express projects. Unicode is the default type for all new QuickPatch projects. Use this command-line parameter to generate a log file for debugging. InstallShield now includes many new. You can add any of these InstallShield prerequisites to your project through the Redistributables view.

If you build a release that uses a Setup. The default compression level that InstallShield uses offers a balance between file size and time that is required to extract the compressed files at run time. If you want to change the compression level or you do not want to use any compression, you can override the default level through a machine-wide setting. By default, InstallShield does not compress any files that have a. You can modify this default compression exclusion list to include other file types or specific files as needed.

The exclusion list is a machine-wide setting. For example, the maximum size of a single. In addition, some users have had trouble signing large. To work around these limitations, InstallShield now has a new default limit of MB for a.

When InstallShield is creating the. You can modify the maximum size limit if necessary. In addition, if you do not want InstallShield to create multi-part.

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