InstallShield 2012 Express

What’s new in InstallShield 2012?

• Suite Installations (Premier) : Multiple products can be easily bundled together into a single, unified suite installation eliminating the need to develop a complex custom launcher or bootstrapper application.
• Installation Streaming (Premier) : End users will experience an “app store-like” feel by downloading just a small file to quickly start the suite installation.
• Installation Collaboration (Premier) : The Installation Collaboration feature has been significantly enhanced to better support distributed installation development allowing product developers to create and manage their portion of the installation   The InstallShield Premier edition includes 5 licenses to the new Developer Installation Manifest editor. 
• 64-Bit Enhancements (Premier and Professional) : 64-Bit and 32-Bit Windows Installer packages can be combined into a single installation eliminating the need to deliver two separate installations or creating a custom launcher. 
• Application Tagging (Premier and Professional): ISO 19770-2 software identification tag creation incorporated as part of the installation development process.
• Merge Module Projects (Premier and Professional) : Merge Module Projects now include built-In support for IIS, text file changes, and XML file changes
• Read-write property RequiredExecutionLevel (Premier and Professional) : The read-write property RequiredExecutionLevel has been added to the ISWiRelease object.
• Support for New Technologies (Premier, Professional and Express) : InstallShield includes several new InstallShield prerequisites that you can add to Basic MSI, InstallScript, and InstallScript MSI projects: Internet Explorer 9.0, Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client 10.50.1600.1, Windows Identity Foundation, Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime (x64), Microsoft App-V 4.6 SP1 Desktop Client (Professional and Premier with Virtualization only) and Microsoft Office 2010 PIA
• Predefined System Searches (Premier, Professional and Express) : InstallShield has new predefined system searches: Adobe Reader 10, Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Office 2003
• New End-User Interface (Premier, Professional and Express) : An entirely new end-user interface and redesigned, modern built-in wizard pages give full control over installation customization.
• Monitoring for COM Extraction (Premier, Professional and Express) : InstallShield 2012 supports a new monitoring method for COM extraction.The method uses a kernel driver to monitor the areas of the registry that are modified during dynamic COM extraction at build time and static COM extraction at design time. It combines the advantages that the earlier methods provided, allowing the DLL to read existing registries entries and preventing changes to the build machine.
  

What’s new in InstallShield 2011?

• Integration with Microsoft Team Foundation Server (Express, Professional and Premier) - InstallShield 2011 now integrates with Microsoft Team Foundation Server. Now customers can use the familiar Visual Studio IDE to effectively manage their Visual Studio and InstallShield projects in a single environment. It allows customers to do continuous product and installation builds with minimum effort.
• .NET Framework 4 Prerequisites (Express, Professional and Premier) - InstallShield 2011 supports Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4, including the new .NET Framework 4 prerequisites that enable installations to check for and install required applications and components during runtime.
• Predefined System Searches (Express, Professional and Premier) - Have installers check if.NET Framework 4.0, SQL Server 2008 Express SP1, and Adobe Reader 9 are installed on a target system.
• Superior Support for Installing 64-Bit Applications (Professional and Premier) - InstallShield 2011 has enhanced functionality to author and support installation projects for 64-bit applications.
• New InstallScript Unicode Support (Professional and Premier) - InstallShield 2011 supports building Unicode InstallScript and InstallScript MSI installations, so installations will correctly display text in multiple languages regardless of the language on the target PC.
• Script Editor (Professional and Premier) - Spend less time typing code and avoid code error with new auto-completion functionality.
• Expiring Setup Launchers (Professional and Premier) - Prevent your end users from installing outdated versions of your applications.
• Build Events (Premier) - Eliminate the need to manage external script files by integrating new pre- and post-build events with your InstallShield build process.

What's new in InstallShield Express 2010 SP1?

This service pack includes support for the market release of Windows 7 and Windows Installer (MSI) 5.0 from Microsoft.

What's new in InstallShield Express 2010?

• Windows 7 Support - InstallShield 2010 has the tools developers need to get a head start on supporting Windows 7. It makes it easy to create applications that meet Microsoft’s requirements for the “Compatible with Windows 7” logo. If software vendors haven’t certified their applications for Vista, the move to Windows 7 can be especially difficult. InstallShield 2010 has the technology to make it easy.
• Windows Installer 5 Beta Support - Windows Installer 5 will be available with the future releases of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. But developers can take advantage of the new features now with InstallShield 2010’s support for the beta of Windows Installer 5. Now software running on Vista or XP can leverage the new MSI 5 features, including:
  • Creating per-user applications
  • Setting access permissions on objects
  • Placing the new hyperlink control on dialogs
  • Quicker installations for large packages
• Windows Server 2008 R2 Support - InstallShield 2010 makes it easy to install applications on Windows Server 2008 R2. You can now specify that your installation requires Windows Server 2008 R2 and build conditions for features and components.
• Displaying Installation Progress on the Taskbar - Installations that are run on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 now show a progress bar on the Windows taskbar during file transfer. This applies to installations that display billboards that were configured in the Billboards view. Note that a progress bar is not displayed on the taskbar during setup initialization or while InstallShield prerequisites are being installed.
• SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1 Support - InstallShield 2010 now includes support for SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1 for mobile device installations.
• Improved IIS Tools for Web Application Installations - Internet Information Services (IIS) is a Web server developed by Microsoft. It provides a secure platform for building and deploying Web-based applications, managing Web sites, and publishing information to the Internet or an intranet. InstallShield 2010 has improved IIS-related functionality that makes it easier to create and manage new IIS Web sites, Web applications, virtual directories, application pools, and Web service extensions. InstallShield 2010 has enhanced its Internet Information Services view to look similar to IIS 7. The settings are now displayed in grids, instead of on tabs. And the grids have buttons that let you sort the grid settings by category or alphabetically. Longtime users of InstallShield will notice and appreciate the difference right away. InstallShield 2010 now gives developers the ability to add IIS Web applications to IIS Web sites and configure as needed. Plus, you can now create an IIS virtual directory without an application. Both enhancements were popular requests by the InstallShield community.
• Setting Permissions for Files, Folders, and Registry Keys - For applications that run in locked-down environments, InstallShield 2010 has new functionality that significantly improved the way installations set files, folders, and registry keys at run time. Developers frustrated with the traditional Windows Installer LockPermissions option will appreciate the improvements, none of which are supported by the old option, including:
• Support for many well-known security identifiers (SIDs) such as guest, everyone, and administrator
• Support for localized user names, which could cause the installation to fail in the traditional option
• Denying a user or group from having the permissions you are specifying
• Adding permissions to a file, folder, or registry key that already exists on the target system, without deleting any existing permissions for that object
• Indicating whether you want permissions to be applied to all of a folder's subfolders and files
• Configuring permissions for a new user that is being created during the installation
• New InstallShield Prerequisites - InstallShield includes a number of new InstallShield prerequisites that you can add to your projects, including:
• Windows Installer 4.5 (with Microsoft fix), 3.1, 3.0, and 2.0
• .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 and 2.0 SP2
• Internet Explorer 8
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 SP1 and 2005 Express SP3
• Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 SP1
• Oracle 11g Instant Client 11.1.0.7
• CrystalReports Basic for Visual Studio 2008
• Significantly Improved User Interface - Simply put, InstallShield 2010 gives developers the IDE they’ve been asking for. From new toolbars and views to customizable grids to dynamic search tools, this is by far the best user interface InstallShield has ever offered, saving developers a ton of time. Some of the highlights include:
• Redistributables view: The new toolbar and the new group box area in this view provide robust search and organizational functionality.
• Internet Information Services view: This view has been redesigned to look similar to IIS 7, making it much easier to use.
• General Information view: All of the settings in this view are displayed in one grid, instead of as separate grids associated with nodes. The settings are grouped into several categories to make them easier to find.

What's new in InstallShield Express 2009?

• Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Support
• Ability to Associate Setup Prerequisites with Features for Chaining Installations - Associate setup prerequisites with features so that the prerequisites that are associated with features are installed if an end user chooses to install the corresponding features and if the setup prerequisites are not already installed on the system.
• Introduction of Value-Added Services with Yahoo!®  Toolbar availability - A new overall initiative for Acresso, Value-Added Services, such as the opportunity to include the Yahoo! Toolbar in an ISV’s end user installation experience, provides the opportunity for installation customers to leverage new revenue-generating features in InstallShield.
• Windows Mobile 6.x support
• Digital Signing Improvements for Windows Mobile Powered Device Installations
• .NET Compact Framework 3.5 and SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Redistributables Now Available for Mobile Devices
• Support for Multi-Part .cab Files
• Ability to compress files that are streamed into Setup.exe and to specify the compression level

What's new in InstallShield Express 2008?

• Easier than ever to optimize installations for Windows Vista™
• Digital signing tab in the Releases view to simplify the process of signing all executable files, which is now required under Windows Vista
• Improvements in the handling of UAC. Preserve the security benefits of user account control while creating an efficient and user-friendly application environment within Windows Vista by optimizing the UAC prompts to your end-users
• SaaS deployment support: IIS 7.0 & SSL certificates
• .NET 3.0 support
• Windows Embedded CE 6.x
• New default end-user dialog theme provides a new, fresh look & feel for customer installations, also includes an easy-to-use interface to select dialog theme

What's new in V12?

• “Get Ready for Vista” support
• Enhanced! Multilingual User Interface (MUI) Support enhanced to create shortcuts that include support for MUI
• New! Windows Installer 4.0 Log File Support on a Project-Wide Basis for easy to create installation logging
• New! User Account Control (UAC) support and digital signature enhancements provide improved security for the software installation
• New! Support for minimizing reboots through the Restart Manager infrastructure—fewer steps, faster installation

What’s new in V11.5?

• Visual Studio 2005 Support
• Pocket PC Windows Mobile 5.0 and Windows CE .NET 5.0 Support
• .NET Framework 2.0 Support
• Visual J# 2.0 Support
• Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) Support
• Trialware Expiration Dates
• Referencing Developer Installation Manifest (DIM) Files

New and Enhanced features in InstallShield 11 Express

• New - Windows Installer 3.1 Support
• New - IIS 6.0 Support
• New - Grow Your Revenue Using the InstallShield Activation Service
• Improved - IIS User Interface

Create High-Quality Installations Quickly and Easily
InstallShield Express helps you create reliable Windows and mobile device installations, via simplified views, quick rebuild capabilities and intuitive wizards. You can rapidly build, test, and implement installations within a day and without any training.

Support for the Latest Technologies and Industry Standards
InstallShield Express keeps you up-to-date with support for the latest technology and industry standards, including Windows Installer, IIS, and more.

Support for Windows Installer
With the Express Edition, you can use the functionality found in Microsoft's Windows Installer 3.1 release to simplify your patch deployment and improve performance.

Support for IIS
Simplify the deployment of Web services with support for Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS). IIS introduces many new features that can help increase the reliability, manageability, scalability, and security of your Web application infrastructure.

Cost-Effective, High-Quality Installations
InstallShield Express provides value for setup authors with limited customization needs. It provides the most commonly required installation functionality at a fraction of the expected cost to help you better manage your installation projects and your budget.

.NET Support and Visual Studio .NET Integration
InstallShield is a setup solution for .NET software developers. You have the option of creating installations within the Visual Studio interface or using the intuitive InstallShield interface. You can also link the primary outputs of your .NET projects to your setups, scan .NET projects for file dependencies, configure .NET custom actions, and much more.

Benefits:

Jumpstart your installation using the Project Assistant’s simplified set of views. It quickly guides you through the installation process with no learning curve. Additional editing is enabled with a visual checklist of more detailed views dedicated to specific installation-authoring tasks.

Accelerate your installation process with built-in wizards. Quickly add an Express project to a Microsoft .NET or Smart Device project solution by simply browsing to it and letting a wizard run. Express includes project wizards for Visual Basic 6, Visual Basic .NET, C# .NET, C++ .NET, and Smart Devices. These offer a great way to kick-start your project.

The Express Edition provides the easiest route for creating installations that require redistributable technologies. You can easily select them as part of your setup, assigning them to one or more features of your application. Just visit the Live Redistributables Technology Gallery and check the items you would like to include. The redistributables view will tell you where to get these objects and merge modules, and allow for direct downloads. Over 70 redistributable technologies are already included such as, Access, BDE, Crystal Reports, DAO, MDAC, and MSDE.

Use the Compact Installer to create setups with one of the smallest overheads of any installation engine. Rapidly build installations with a very low overhead (less than 100k) that will be downloaded over the internet. Easily mark files that need to be overwritten at installation time by simply selecting the Always Overwrite function.

Easily add Web services to any installation. A single dedicated view allows you to quickly build all aspects of Internet Information Services (IIS), including creating Web sites and configuring virtual roots. With dialog text editing, you can improve your end-user’s experience by editing text, graphics, and other content in your user-interface dialogs.

Here are just some of the features available in InstallShield Express:

• Compact Installer - For setups that will be downloaded over the internet, the Compact Installer lets you quickly deploy an installation with the smallest overhead (less than 100 KB) of any installation engine
• Always Overwrite - Speed setup creation by marking files that will always need to be overwritten at installation time, regardless of version or modification date
• Live Redistributable Gallery - This live gallery contains over 70 merge modules, making it extremely easy to add support for popular technologies such as Crystal Reports, Microsoft Access, and MDAC in your project. Never waste time trying to find the required files and registry entries for these technologies. When new merge modules or objects are available, they will automatically appear in the gallery as downloadable options
• Visual Studio .NET Integration - Enjoy the convenience and familiarity of running Express completely inside the Visual Studio .NET shell or separately using its traditional IDE. Your views are integrated into the Visual Studio solution explorer and each view is presented as a workspace tab
• Mobile Device Support - Easily create installations for mobile devices and expand your deployment to all Window CE platforms, including PocketPC 2003 and Smartphone 2003, and all Palm handheld devices

Maintenance Plans
In addition to the resources of the support Web site, you are offered a number of maintenance plans that are fine-tuned to meet your specific needs. Each maintenance plan is per licensed user and allows you to submit unlimited support requests for 12 months.

The Yearly Bronze Maintenance Plan includes:

• All available paid upgrades to your product, guaranteed for twelve months from purchase date
• Protection against price increases for the duration of your plan
• Renewal notices sent automatically, to insure your plan against expiration
• A Maintenance Plan Card detailing all benefits and plan specifics
• 24 x 7 access to Knowledge Base
• 24 x 7 access to product Web Communities
• Sample Code, Sample Projects, and White Papers
• Technical Webinars / Online Product Demonstrations
• Unlimited Web-based requests using eService
• Hours of operations - Designated Time Zone

In addition the Silver Maintenance Plan includes:

• Unlimited telephone support requests
• Initial Response Time 16 Business Hours