InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition User Guide

Chapter 1: InstallShield 2012 Spring Express Edition
What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallShield Express Edition
Enhancements
InstallShield 2008 Express Edition includes the following enhancements.
Usability Enhancements for Releases
The release settings are now organized by category on several different tabs in the Releases view, which
was formerly called the Build Your Release view.
The settings in the Distribute Your Release view have been moved to the new Postbuild tab in the
Releases view. The Postbuild tab lets you configure settings for distributing releases to a folder or FTP
site automatically at build time.
A new Distribute command is available when you right-click a release in the Releases view. When you
select this command, InstallShield copies all of the relevant files for your release to the locations that are
specified on the Postbuild tab.
To learn more, see:
• Build Tab
• Setup.exe Tab
• Signing Tab
• .NET/J# Tab
• Internet Tab
• Events Tab
• Testing and Running Installations
• Distributing Releases to a Folder or FTP Site Automatically
Usability Enhancements for the Files view, the Registry View, and the Redistributables View
Several enhancements are available for the Files view:
• You can right-click a file in the Destination computer’s files pane and then click the new Open
Containing Folder command. Doing so opens a Windows Explorer window and displays the folder
that contains the file that you right-clicked.
• A new Add command is available when you right-click the Destination computer’s files pane.
Use this command to display an Open dialog box that lets you browse to the file that you want to add
to your project.
• The upper-right corner of this view has a new link (either Show Source Panes or Hide Source Panes).
Use this new link to show or hide the two top panes—the Source computer’s folders pane and
the Source computer’s files pane—in this view. You can hide the two panes, open a Windows
Explorer window, and drag and drop files from the Windows Explorer window to the two remaining
panes in InstallShield.
The Registry view also has a new link (either Show Source Panes or Hide Source Panes) in the upperright
corner. Use this new link to show or hide the two top panes—the Source computer’s folders
pane and the Source computer’s files pane—in this view.
Two enhancements have also been made to the Redistributables view:
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