InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 1: InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition
What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallShield Express Edition
Ability to Install IIS Web Sites Without Virtual Directories
InstallShield now includes support for installing IIS Web sites without any virtual directories. This
support is available for all new Web sites that are created in InstallShield.
Previously, InstallShield did not include support for installing Web sites without virtual directories.
Therefore, if a Web site in an installation did not have any virtual directories, the Web site would not be
created at run time.
Note that if you upgrade an InstallShield 2008 or earlier project to InstallShield 2012 Spring Express
Edition, and the project already contains a Web site, the Web site cannot be installed if it does not have
any virtual directories. In order to be able to install the Web site without virtual directories, you must
manually delete it from your InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition project, and then re-add it to
your project as a new Web site.
This enhancement applies to Express projects.
To learn more, see Creating a Web Site and Adding an Application or a Virtual Directory.
Simplification of QuickPatch Packages
InstallShield now offers the ability to build streamlined QuickPatch packages, which typically have fewer
new subfeatures and built-in InstallShield custom actions than those built in earlier releases of
InstallShield. A new Streamline QuickPatch setting on the Advanced tab in QuickPatch projects lets you
specify whether InstallShield should create this new simpler type of QuickPatch package.
For more information, see:
• Specifying Whether to Streamline the QuickPatch Package
• Advanced Tab
Ability to Password-Protect Patches and QuickPatch Packages
InstallShield now has new password settings that let you password-protect QuickPatch packages. These
settings are on the Advanced tab of QuickPatch projects.
If you password-protect a QuickPatch package, any end user who wants to install the package must enter
a case-sensitive password to launch your update.
To learn more, see the following:
• Password-Protecting a QuickPatch Package
• Advanced Tab
Ability to Use the /v Command-Line Parameter More than Once to Pass More than One Parameter
from Setup.exe to the .msi File
If you want to pass more than one argument from Setup.exe to Msiexec.exe, you can use the /v option
multiple times at the command line, once for each argument. Previously, the /v option could be used
only once, and all parameters were passed through this instance.
This enhancement applies to Express projects.
For more information, see Setup.exe.
Predefined System Searches for the .NET Framework
InstallShield has several new predefined system searches:
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