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Chapter 1: InstallShield 2012 Express Edition
What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallShield Express Edition
Enhancement for Setup Prerequisites
The Setup.exe tab in the Releases view has a new Setup Prerequisites Location setting that lets you
specify where the setup prerequisites in your Express project should be located for the selected release.
The default value is Follow Individual Selections; with this option, InstallShield uses the locations that
are specified in the Redistributables view for each individual prerequisite.
The other available options are Download from the Web, Extract from Setup.exe, and Copy from Source
Media. These three options override the locations that are specified in the Redistributables view for each
setup prerequisite.
For more information, see:
• Specifying a Run-Time Location for a Specific InstallShield Prerequisite
• Specifying the Run-Time Location for InstallShield Prerequisites at the Release Level
• Setup.exe Tab
Enhanced Support for the SecureCustomProperties Property
If you set a public property in the user interface sequence of an installation that requests elevated
privileges for the execute sequence, and you want to pass the property’s value to the execute sequence,
the property must be listed as a value for the SecureCustomProperties property, or it must be a
restricted public property.
InstallShield now automatically adds to the SecureCustomProperties property properties that may
need to be passed from the user interface sequence to the execute sequence. To learn more, see
Specifying that a Public Property Should Be a Restricted Public Property.
Automatic Downgrade Prevention Entries in Express Projects
To prevent end users from being able to install the current version of your product over a future major
version of the same product, InstallShield automatically adds support for preventing the current
installation from overwriting a future major version. To learn more, see Preventing the Current
Installation from Overwriting a Future Major Version of the Same Product.
Changes for ALLUSERS and for the Customer Information Dialog
Beginning with InstallShield 2008 Express Edition, the ALLUSERS property is set to 1 by default in all
new Express projects. This is the recommended implementation, since most installations must be run in
a per-machine context with administrative privileges.
If you upgrade a project that was created with InstallShield 12 Express Edition or earlier toInstallShield
2012 Express Edition, InstallShield does not automatically change the value of the ALLUSERS
property or add this property if it was not defined in the earlier project. The General Information view
has a new ALLUSERS setting that lets you set the value of ALLUSERS.
Also new with InstallShield 2008 Express Edition, by default, the Customer Information dialog in all
new Express projects does not display the radio button group that enables end users to specify whether
they want to install the product for all users or for only the current user. This is the recommended
implementation for this dialog.
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