InstallShield 2012 Express Edition User Guide - Knowledge Base ...

Chapter 2: Getting Started
Upgrading from Earlier Versions of InstallShield
• The Setup Launcher Type setting on the Setup.exe tab for a release in the Releases view has been
removed from Express projects.
• The Update Launcher Type setting was removed from the Advanced tab in the Build Settings area of
the General Information view of QuickPatch projects.
New Name for the Postbuild Tab in the Releases View
The Postbuild tab, which is one of the tabs that InstallShield displays when you select a release in the
Releases view, has been renamed. It is now called the Events tab. This change is reported for
informational purposes.
Changes that Affect New Projects but Not Upgraded Projects
This section describes changes to InstallShield that may affect new projects but not projects that are
upgraded from earlier versions. Note that you may need to make manual changes to upgraded projects.
Changing Design-Time and Build-Time Locations of Existing InstallShield Prerequisites in Existing
Projects
InstallShield now lets you specify the folders where InstallShield should search for InstallShield
prerequisite files (.prq files), their associated data files, and their dependencies. Previously, InstallShield
searched for .prq files in the following location only: InstallShield Program Files
Folder\SetupPrerequisites.
If you move any InstallShield prerequisites from the InstallShield Program Files
Folder\SetupPrerequisites folder to a new custom location that you have defined on the Prerequisites
tab of the Options dialog box (or any of the other places where search paths can be defined now), you
may need to perform the following steps in InstallShield 2010 Express Edition or earlier projects when
you upgrade them to InstallShield 2012 Express Edition:
1. In the Redistributables view, clear the check box for each InstallShield prerequisite that is included
in your project but is located in a custom location. Also clear the check box for each InstallShield
prerequisite whose data files or dependencies were moved from the default location to a custom
location.
2. Click the new Refresh button.
3. Select the check box for each InstallShield prerequisite that you removed from your project in step 1.
InstallShield removes the path of the prerequisite from the ISSetupPrerequisites table of your
project. The full path was stored in this table in InstallShield 2010 Express Edition and earlier projects.
Note that if you only clear a prerequisite’s check box and then reselect it without clicking the Refresh
button, InstallShield continues to use the full path, rather than just the file name, in the
ISSetupPrerequisites table.
If you upgrade an InstallShield 2010 Express Edition or earlier project to InstallShield 2012 Express
Edition, change the location of an InstallShield prerequisite, and then add that prerequisite to your
project, you do not need to perform the refresh procedure. Also, if you create a new project in
InstallShield 2012 Express Edition, you do not need to perform the refresh procedure. In both cases,
InstallShield does not include the path in the ISSetupPrerequisites table of your project, which
enables you to use the custom search path, instead of the default path.
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