INSTALLSHIELD

For over 20 years, millions of Windows application software were adapted to run on each successive Windows operating system (OS ). End users
could safely click and install the software that vendors packed compactly in distributable format.

How did it happen?

It all started with INSTALLSHIELD,the Industry Leader in Software Installation Authoring !

Software vendors / owners used Installshield to pack their software and tailor the installation process.

Installshield took away the installation complexities in the operating systems so that all software vendors could prepare their software quickly for
distribution. With Installshield, the installation process is made easy, safe and fast. It is just as easy to uninstall the software from your windows
system.

InstallShield is recognized as the industry standard in installation authoring. Successful software publishers around the world rely on InstallShield
for authoring powerful and flexible Windows Installer and InstallScript installations.

Is your software ready for Windows 7?

WHY YOU NEED INSTALLSHIELD 2010

* Support for the final release of Windows 7 / Windows Installer 5 / windows Server 2008 R2

You need InstallShield 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1). Please see technical note below.

* Create customized virtual applications in the Microsoft App-V format.

      Virtualization enables you to isolate an application in its own environment so that it does not conflict with existing applications or
       modify the underlying operating system.

      You need InstallShield with the Virtualization Pack. 

      Detects the following types of virtual machines:

             Microsoft Hyper-V
             A VMware product such as VMware Player, VMware Workstation, or VMware Server
             Microsoft Virtual PC  

      InstallScript language has been expanded to support the detection. 

* InstallShield now supports 64-bit COM extraction

* New ways to secure Files, Folders, and Registry Keys for end users who run your product in a locked-down environment:

      Custom InstallShield handling

      SetObjectPermissions, an InstallScript Function

* InstallShield now enables you to add InstallShield prerequisites to InstallScript projects.

     InstallShield prerequisites are redistributables that usually install a product or technology framework that is required by your product.

* InstallShield includes a number of new InstallShield prerequisites that you can add to Basic MSI, InstallScript, and InstallScript MSI
   projects

* New: A IIS Web Site scanner

     The IIS scanner creates an XML file that contains all of the settings for the Web site, its virtual directories, its applications, and its
     application pools. You can use the XML file to import the IIS data into the Internet Information Services view in InstallShield. Once
     you have imported the IIS data into a project, you can use the Internet Information Services view to make changes to the IIS settings
     as needed.

    The ability to import the IIS data into an InstallShield project is available only in the Premier edition of InstallShield.

* Add IIS Web applications to Web Sites and other related improvements.

     InstallShield has new IIS settings:

• Managed Pipeline Mode—This setting enables you to specify the appropriate request-processing pipeline mode—either integrated or
  classic—for an application pool.
• Enable 32-Bit Applications—This setting lets you specify whether you want to allow 32-bit applications in the selected application pool
  to be run on 64-bit systems.
• .NET Framework Version—This setting is where you specify the version of the .NET Framework that an application pool should load.
• ASP.NET Platform—If your installation may be run on a 64-bit version of Windows with the .NET Framework, use this setting to specify
  which ASP.NET platform should be used to map a Web site, application, or virtual directory to the ASP.NET version

* New View for Configuring Run-Time Text File Changes

    Enables you to configure search-and-replace behavior for content in text files—for example, .txt, .htm, .xml, .config, .ini, and .sql
    files—that you want to modify at run time on the target system. The text files can be part of your installation, or they can be files that
    are already present on target systems

* New String Editor View

    The view contains a spreadsheetlike table that shows the collection of language-independent
    identifiers and corresponding language-specific values for your project. You have complete and
    centralized control over the localizable text strings that are displayed at run time during the
    installation process.

* Enhanced ease-of-use

    Easier to find information, modify project settings and customize grids .....via new toolbars
    and dynamic search capabilities

    View and edit all localizable run-time string in one centralised place via the new String Editor .

    Quickly configure search-and-replace behaviour for content in text files on target systems
    ( new Text File Changes view )

    Create IIS Web Applications & virtual directories separately with the redesigned Internet
    Information Services view.

* Add Installshield prerequisites directly to InstallScript projects

   This was previously done via Basic MSI and Installshield MSI projects.

*  Program Compatibility Assistant will not be triggered

    Installshield setup launcher now includes a compatibility section.

    Previous version: a Program Compatibility Assistant (PCA) dialog box may have appeared at the end
    of an installation on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 systems. The PCA dialog box indicated
    that the program might not have installed correctly.  

* Use the Windows 7 logo artwork to show your software is compatible to Windows 7

    Your product's installation must meet certain program's requirements. 

    Installshield offers two validation suites can help you verify that your Windows Installer–based
    installation or merge module meets the installation requirements of the Compatible with Windows 7
    logo program.  

    InstallShield Validation Suite for Windows 7 and InstallShield Merge Module Validation Suite for
    Windows 7.

* Setting Windows Shell Properties for a Shortcut

    Example: if you do not want the Start menu entry for one of your shortcuts to be highlighted as
    newly installed after end users install your product, you can set a property for that shortcut.
    You might want to use this property with shortcuts that are for tools and secondary products. 

* Selling Software for mobile Windows Mobile–powered devices?

    You need to use a 90×90 pixel Start screen icon (.png file) for your product.

    InstallShield enables you to select the .png file that you want to use. When the shortcut is
    installed and displayed on Windows Mobile 6.5 Professional–powered devices, the Windows Mobile
    Shell scales down the shortcut's icon as necessary, depending on the DPI of the device.

* Impact of Windows Resource Protection (WRP) on Windows 7 systems

    Extract COM data from COM servers? InstallShield does not extract any registry keys that are
    protected by WRP for Windows 7.

    Run dependency scanners in InstallShield? they do not list as dependencies any files that are
    protected by WRP for Windows 7. 

*  32 Improvements over previous release

INSTALLSHIELD & WINDOWS 7 TECHNICAL NOTE

There are two Installshield 2010 software: Original and Installshield 2010 with SP1

Installshield 2010 original version supports

Microsoft Windows 7 Release Candidate English?
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Release Candidate English, and the
beta version of Windows Installer 5.

Installshield 2010 with SP1 ( Service Pack 1) supports final version of Windows 7.

There is change in Installshield 2010 with SP1 that user needs to know when going forward. Projects built with this release cannot
be opened using earlier versions of Installshield including Installshield 2010 original version.

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