InstallShield Features
Create Professional Installations
- Support for fonts in MSIX
- Build InstallShield Projects in a Azure DevOps Pipeline
- MSIX - Modification Packages
- MSIX - Support for MSIX Core
- Pure 64 installers
- AWS CloudHSM-based Digital Signing
- Simplified Builds Within Docker
- Automated Patch Design
- Create Windows® Installer (MSI) Installations
- Create Windows Installer Major and Minor Upgrades
- Create Windows Installer Patches (MSP) Limited
- Create native MSIX packages
- Easily convert any MSI file into an MSIX package
- Create and Edit Windows Installer Transforms (MST)
- Robust Transform Projects Support. Microsoft® Visual Studio® Integration
- Create Windows Server App Packages (WSA) from MSI Projects
- Create InstallScript (Setup.exe) Installations
- Multi-Instance Product Installations
- Upgrade Multi-instance Installations
- Check for the Latest Version of a Setup Any Time an Installation is Run
- Advanced UI Editor
- Windows Installer Dialog Editor
- End-User Dialog Themes for Windows Installer-Based Projects - Limited
- Custom Windows Tiles
- Billboard Support for Custom Branding
- Support for HTML Controls on InstallScript Dialogs
- One-Click Installations from the Web
- DLL, EXE, VBScript, and JScript Custom Actions
- PowerShell Custom Actions
- Managed-Code Custom Actions
Develop Using Best Practices
- Mapped MSI Table Relationships
- Windows Logo Validation Testing
- Include Microsoft® System Center Configuration Manager App Model Metadata for Enterprise Deployments
- Support for Microsoft® Certificate Requirements including SHA 1 and SHA-256
- Design DPI-Aware Installations
- Designer to create a fresh, modern look
Develop and Deploy Globally
- Unicode Support in Most InstallShield Views
Support the Latest Platforms
- Create Pure 64-Bit Installations (Windows Installer)
- Install 64-bit Applications (Windows Installer)
- Install 64-bit Applications (InstallScript)
- Install Windows Device Drivers Using DIFx 2.1.1
Create Installations for Web and Multi-tier Applications
- Support for .NET Framework (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Deploy Databases to Microsoft SQL Server
- Deploy Databases to Microsoft Azure SQL Databases
- Deploy Databases to Oracle
- Deploy Databases to MySQL
- Database Import Wizard
- Deploy Websites to IIS with SSL Certificates Limited
- IIS Web Services Support
- IIS Tools for Web Apps - Limited
- XML File Updating
- Configure Windows Users and Groups
Save Time and Develop Efficiently
- Identify what existing InstallShield projects require change to meet Microsoft MSIX standards
- Automation Interface for Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Projects
- Monitor for COM Extraction (32-bit and 64-bit)
- Registry-Free COM Registration (Application Manifests)
- COM+ Support
- Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for Windows Installer Installations
- Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for InstallScript Installations
- Associate Prerequisites with Features
- Prerequisite Editor
- Upgrade Installation Project Files from Any Previous Version of InstallShield
- Local Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates Across Multiple Projects
- Reusable Project Templates
- Static and Dynamic File Dependency Scanners
- LZX Compression Option (Windows Installer Projects)
- Display Installation Progress on the Taskbar
- Easily Edit Installation Strings
- Specify Custom Icon and Version Resource Properties Partial
- Support for Restart Manager
- Virtual Machine Detection
- Easily Edit XML Files During Installation
- Easily Edit Text Files on the Destination Machine During Installation
- Easily Create System Searches Limited
- Mark Files for Deletion as Part of an Installation Through Interaction with MSI RemoveFiles Action
- Set Windows Permissions
- Enforce End User License Agreement (EULA) Reading Before Installing
- Print the End User License Agreement while Installing the Application
- Call .NET Assemblies from InstallScript
- Command-Line Builder
- Complete Project Debugging
- File Dependency Scanning
- MSI Log Analyzer
- Source Code Control Integration
- Save InstallShield Projects as XML
- MSI Difference Checking
- Detailed Build Reports
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration
- Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) Support
- Microsoft® Visual Studio® Integration
- InstallShield Standalone Build - 2 Licenses Included