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The 2014 edition of InstallShield.

is a software tool for creating MSI installers or software packages.

InstallShield is primarily used for creating installers for Microsoft Windows desktop and server platforms, but it can also be used to manage software applications and packages on a variety of handheld and mobile devices.

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Enable Windows Feature\Role through Installshield

Our application supported for OS 'Windows server 2012 R2'. We have an application in which we need to have 'Application Initialization' feature to be enabled. We have used Installshield 2014 for making the installer of our application. I have found…
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How to run custom actions while running the MSI installer in silent mode

I've created an MSI installer using Installshield 2014. While running it from UI everything works fine but when I run it in silent mode using below command then my custom actions are not firing at all: C:\>msiexec /i "myApplication.msi" /qn…
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Wrong/Different Publisher Name

We have created InstallScript Basic MSI projects, all the projects have English, French and Japanese as Setup Languages; and English as default language.Under General Information tab we filled our Company name(say XYZ) in Publisher field. While…
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RedGate SQL Comparison SDK API Licensing Issue

First of all Sorry all that I have to write the lengthy question, But it is necessary to write these things to explain my problem better. We have an installer to install our application. I want to upgrade the database through installer. So, I have…
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VS2012 and InstallShield 2014 Premier Issue

I've been using VS2012 with InstallShield2014LE on our existing projects.We finally purchased the installed 2014 premier and when I open/load an existing solution that has a 2014LE setup project alongside the main project, I get the following error,…
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Restart Manager Dialog Localizing Partially for Wix Installer

We have a legacy InstallShield installer for a product, for which we are porting that product to wix installer. I observed a improper behavior of localization in Restart Manager dialog only during ARP uninstallation, for which only the description…
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Uninstall using .msi file - not able to close all requested applications

I am facing the problem using installer generated by InstallShield. The issue is appearing during uninstall process. setup.exe file requires administrator privileges. When I try to uninstall application using setup.exe file everything works as…
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Unable to set custom path(user defined path) of merge module file path in Basic MSI Project in InstallShiled?

I have merge module (.msm) files. I want to add this file in Basic MSI Project. I found that InstallShiled has fixed path of merge module folder. Every time I have to move built merge module in fixed Path of merge module folder. For Example Fixed…
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Installshield 2014 - show form optional by errorcode of batch script

How can i display a form in my installshield sequence optional by evaluating the error code of a batchscript?
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How to install Sql Server 2012 SP2 Cumlative update silently from installshield

We ship SQL Server 2012 express edition with our software package. Currently, we install SQL Server silently on client's machine. We needed to setup SQL server before Installer starts because of Issue in SQL Server. However, from 2012 SP2 Cumulative…
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Silent Install of SQL Server 2008 R2 Still Shows UI to User - How do I keep the UI from showing?

I have an install project built with InstallShield 2014 Pro and I am having trouble with one part of the install. After reading several blogs, MSDN articles, and posts here on stackoverflow, I am asking for help with doing a quiet install of Sql…
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Installshield 2014 Basic MSI Hide features dynamically not installing features

I have created a Basic MSI Installer using InstallShield 2014 for a server/client program and have to hide features dynamically based on the License Key of a database that is installed prior to our Server app being installed. I have created…
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Pass property to ISCmdBld.exe

I am using ISCmdBld.exe to build my installers on a remote machine and i need to specify different paths to INSTALLDIR. I need to do something like: -z INSTALLDIR="[ProgramFiles64Folder]\MyNewDir" and for 32bit -z…
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Unable to browse/refer a .net class library dll file (which is part of product deployment and dependency of an .Net exe file) from custom action

I'm creating a new custom action in a basic MSI (installshield 2014) project. I've to call a public method in a managed .Net assembly abc.dll which gets deployed as part of the product deployment. abc.dll is part of a component named component1…
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InstallShield CustomAction : How to load the unmanaged/native dependency assemblies during installation for p/invoke calls

I'm creating a basic MSI installshield 2014 project. I've added a custom action which calls a public method present in a managed .Net assembly (MyCSharpAssembly.dll). Now my managed dll in turn calls a method present in an unamanged/native assembly…
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