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Chapter 2: Getting Started
Upgrading to the Premier or Professional Editions of InstallShield
Features that Are in Only the Premier and Professional Editions
Following is a list of some of the features that are available in the Premier and Professional editions but
not the Express edition:
• Standalone Build—This tool, which is available with the Premier and Professional editions of
InstallShield, enables you to install only the part of InstallShield that builds the installations, plus
any redistributables that you want to include, on a build machine. Extra licenses of the Standalone
Build are available for purchase.
• Dialog Editor—The Dialog Editor enables you to modify the layout of existing end-user dialogs or
create new custom dialogs. Import and export dialogs to share them across projects. Construct
different dialogs for each language supported in the project.
• Virtualization support—The Microsoft App-V Assistant is included in the Virtualization Pack, which is
available for purchase with the Premier and Professional editions of InstallShield. Use this assistant
to 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.
• InstallShield MSI tools—The Premier and Professional editions of InstallShield includes several tools:
InstallShield MSI Diff, InstallShield MSI Query, InstallShield MSI Sleuth, and InstallShield MSI
Grep. You can use these tools to troubleshoot issues with Windows Installer packages.
• Automation interface—Use script to add new files, add or delete features, change the product name
and upgrade code, change release settings, change summary information stream items, change
release flags, change any property, initiate the build process, and more.
• Release customization—Define which project segments to compress, which features to place on
which disk, and which languages to include. Choose to filter application data based on language to
support localization efforts.
• Source code control integration—Simplify the process of checking projects in and out of your source
code control system and save space when differencing projects. The SCC integration in the Premier
and Professional editions of InstallShield supports integration with various source code control
systems.
• Flexible localization support—The Premier and Professional editions of InstallShield include a String
Editor view, which gives you complete and centralized control over the localizable text strings that
are displayed at run time during the installation process. You can use this view to edit the strings for
everything from button text to feature descriptions. This view also includes support for exporting
string entries (which you can have translated) and for importing translated string entries back into
your project.
• Project validation—Use standard .cub files to validate installations and merge modules. Use the
upgrade and patching validation to find out about potential upgrade problems and resolve them
before you release your upgrades and patches.
• Patch creation—In addition to enabling you to create QuickPatch projects, the Premier and
Professional editions let you create standard patches that contain updates to a previous version of
your product.
• Manage multiple product versions—Build versions such as Evaluation, Debug, Standard, and
Advanced—from a single project. Allow specific features, InstallShield prerequisites, and other
elements to be chosen for inclusion in (or exclusion from) a release through user-defined flags.
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