InstallShield Express

Quick and easy installations that support today's technologies.

Published by Revenera
Distributed by ComponentSource since 2020

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New licenses for InstallShield Express are no longer available, however you may continue to renew your existing maintenance for perpetual licenses. If you are interested in new licenses please see InstallShield or InstallShield Premier.

On 01-Sep-2021, Revenera/Flexera changed the licensing model of the InstallShield and AdminStudio product lines. All new licenses are now 3 year non-perpetual...

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New licenses for InstallShield Express are no longer available, however you may continue to renew your existing maintenance for perpetual licenses. If you are interested in new licenses please see InstallShield or InstallShield Premier.

On 01-Sep-2021, Revenera/Flexera changed the licensing model of the InstallShield and AdminStudio product lines. All new licenses are now 3 year non-perpetual Timed Subscription licenses. Perpetual licenses are no longer available for purchase. At the end of the Timed Subscription, you have to renew the Subscription to continue to create new/edit existing installation scripts. If you have an existing Perpetual License with Maintenance Plan that was purchased before 1-Sep-2021 AND that Bronze/Silver/Gold Maintenance Plan has not expired, you can renew that active Maintenance Plan for an additional year. If you let that Perpetual License Maintenance Plan expire, you will be required to buy a new Timed Subscription (non-perpetual) license to continue to receive upgrades and support.

InstallShield Express Reviews

Average Review Score: 3.5 (11)

3.5 out of 5 stars

5 star
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4 star
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Most recent positive review

Chris Greece5 star

Helped me compile in minutes a setup for my application in VB.net. Gives many choices.

Most recent critical review

Name Withheld Australia1 star

Tricky licensing model, and not very user friendly software. Shielded me from installing the software I had recently purchased.

Chris verified customerGreece5 star

Helped me compile in minutes a setup for my application in VB.net. Gives many choices.

Name Withheld verified customerNorway5 star
Name Withheld verified customerAustralia1 star

Tricky licensing model, and not very user friendly software. Shielded me from installing the software I had recently purchased.

Name Withheld verified customerUSA4 star
Name Withheld verified customerGermany4 star

Sehr gute Integration in Visual Studio, schnelles paketieren sowie Integration von Runtimes. Speziell bei größeren Projekten werden die Abhängigkeiten der einzelnen Projekte aufgelöst und somit nur die Dateien installiert, welche auch wirklich zur Ausführung notwendig sind. Dies erspart wirklich Zeit und ist deshalb eine Preiswerte Anwendung sowie in meinen Augen gute Investition in die Zukunft

Name Withheld verified customer5 star
Name Withheld verified customer1 star

After I bought a new computer, I was unable to activate the InstallShield product which I own. On support request they do not answer. The so called "offline activation" doesnt work - they didnt activation also didnt worked - I sent the request by mail but never received any answer. The prices are very arrogant and way too high.

ivr_wizardUSA1 star

InstallShield Express 2011 has broken Visual Source Safe 2005. I am not able to use VSS with VB.Net 2003, but can do so with other VB.Net series ok. Their support has been slow and after 2 weeks they are now announcing that they can replicate the problem, have no work around, and no eta. Flexera, I believe, bought out several other firms, so choices are fleeting. My suggestion in dealing with their support structure is to invest in a Starbucks prepaid card - they will come in handy for the lengthy waits. There has been recent activity on your Support Incident #SIOA-000169419. Incident Description: Hello Jeffrey, Thanks for your patience with this Visual Source Safe error. This problem has been reproduced and determined to be an issue in our software. This issue has been submitted to our Engineering team as Issue #IOA-000057898. Currently, there is no workaround. Our Engineering team is investigating this issue, but at this moment, there is no estimated time frame for when it will be fixed. You can track the status of this issue by checking product release notes or searching our Knowledge Base through eService. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Kind Regards, Flexera Software Technical Support

marc.grubenThe Netherlands2 star

I've been using the product since version 2.0. During versions the software has become more expensive and the language support has disappeared. The software is good for its job, except it has some problems with non existing drives. It also uses binair files (instead of text files) to store the project, which is pretty bad when you have problems. I wanted to upgrade my notebook and had to transfer my licence. The kind of support you get is really bad and you’re not treated as a licensed customer which needed the product (I have been waiting for activation for more than 5 days now). This will be the last version of this product I will ever buy, I'll go to a company who are more focussed on their customers instead of money. So if you have the choice I would rather look for other products which will do the same as this product but has more professional support. Marc Gruben 828 Systems

KeithRislerCanada3 star

The InstallShield Express V3.5 product continues this product's tradition of simple setup creation; simple in the sense of making things much easier for experienced people who know what they are doing in creating a Windows setup package, and moreover know how to troubleshoot Windows setup issues. 1. The product functions well, but is somewhat hampered by the constraints imposed by the Microsoft Windows Installer. For example, when an InstallShield Express V3.51 (there's a patch to this minor version release for V3.50 users on InstallShield web site) setup runs under Windows 2000, a message noting that the Windows Installer version on the Windows 2000 machine is typically generated. The warning can be turned off, but the problem of an outdated target machine remains. Since Microsoft allows Windows 2000 to receive updated Windows Installer versions via service packs only, or so it would seem, there is no way to trigger an InstallShield Express setup to force an update on the Windows Installer on Windows 2000 target machines. 2. When I installed this program to my D: drive rather than the C: drive, a persistent error was generated during build attempts, as the program could not locate a key file needed to do the build. It appears that there may be a hard-wired component in the setup of this program that expects to see the main files on C:. Installing InstallShield Express V3.50 to C: fixed this problem for me. 3. The program does a basic job of importing V2.13 InstallShield Express setups to the new Windows Installer paradigm, but I found that much work was often needed to get things fully functional after import of a complex setup. This is no different than for other setup creation tools; a certain amount of work must be redone in order to move complex setups to the Windows Installer model. 4. A few tips: This is a 32-bit only product that no longer creates 16-bit setups. I find that it can create setups that launch MS-DOS programs, however, provided one creates icons using .PIF files and not icons that call MS-DOS .EXE files directly. The program cannot create installs that run under Windows 3.1, however, nor will setups run under MS-DOS. A word of caution: if you have an MS-DOS program you need to park on a target machine, you can do that, but only by placing the file in a directory and creating an icon link to it via a .PIF file. I did this in one test by creating the .PIF files and rolling them into my setup with the other relevant files. I well imagine this is not a supported use of this program! When I tried to build a setup featuring icons linked directly to MS-DOS.EXE files, the program would generate an error and close itself entirely under Windows 2000. 5. Generally, the product functions well, but to make it work for you reliably, a good knowledge of how installers work, and how the various Windows versions handle file installs, is also essential. In this context, of the knowledgeable programmer, this program meets its objective of quick and [relatively] easy software setup creation.