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InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio. Latest support of InstallShield LE is for Visual Studio 2015.

InstallShield Limited Edition for Visual Studio 2010/2012 is a free tool for Visual Studio customer that serves as a replacement for the now deprecated Visual Studio Deployment Projects. InstallShield LE provides a small subset of the functionality found in the other InstallShield editions. Many of the features in InstallShield are locked and unavailable. Therefore it is helpful to tag questions as such.

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How do I create an InstallShield LE project to install a windows service?

I downloaded Visual Studio 2012 yesterday when it was released on MSDN. I have noticed that a few of the project types that we had in 2010 are gone or different. The biggest difference for me right now is the removal of the Windows Installer…
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How to migrate Visual Studio setup project to InstallShield Limited Edition?

I have Visual Studio setup projects (MSI / vdproj) in solutions I am attempting to migrate to Visual Studio 2012 where support for these projects has been pushed off to third parties with the suggested replacements being WiX or the in-app-linked…
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InstallShield LE (with Visual Studio 2012) completely fails to detect dependencies

I'm having a nightmare trying to get a simple installer working in InstallShield LE (the one shipped with VS 2012). There are all kinds of problems that I can work around (like the fact I can no longer do "Rebuild All" without it messing everything…
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Include files marked as "Copy to Output Directory" with Installshield LE

I'm building a Windows Service in VB.NET with Visual Studio 2012. I included log4net in my project to deal with logging information about the service execution. I created a log4net.config file, which I marked Copy if newer in its Copy to Output…
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Visual Studio 2012 Windows service .vdproj project migration

I'm trying to move a solution I have over to Visual Studio 2012 and one of the project types is .vdproj. According to this link this project type is not supported in Visual Studio 2012: MSDN says they recommend that you use InstallShield Limited…
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How to create a single setup.exe with InstallShield limited edition?

I am trying to create a single .exe file installer. I managed to get all the dependencies in to a .exe file (by setting extract from Setup.exe property). How do i get the .msi also inside the setup.exe file? This is what it looks like now
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How to get InstallShield LE to uninstall the existing installation automatically?

Is this possible? All I can see searching around is basically that I need to use 3rd party tools (e.g. Orca) to get GUIDs from my existing MSIs and configure InstallShield with these to uninstall the existing version. I've tried one or two of these…
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Generating single exe InstallShield 2012 limited edtion in visual Studio 2012

I'm using InstallShield Wizard spring limited edition in Visual Studio 2012. I want to know how can I generate a SINGLE .EXE installer file in installshield, I'm now getting two ini files, a cab file, an msi file and an exe file. Thank You
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Install Shield Limited Edition WIndows service

I was using the Visual Studio installer project for installing my product. Now it looks like the official approach is to use Install Shield Limited Edition project. Now I checked in the Limited Edition project type, and there does not appear to be a…
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Configuring InstallShield LE to remove previous versions built using Visual Studio Setup Projects

Using Visual Studio 2010, I would like to switch over to using InstallShield LE instead of the Visual Studio Setup Project. In the Setup Project, an option RemovePreviousVersions existed which was great for making an installer that would essentially…
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Is it possible to create self-extracted setup with InstallShield Limited Edition

InstallShield Limited Edition comes as free addition to Visual Studio 2010 users. It has many options on how to configure installation package, but I am having an issue to figure out if is possible to create a self-extracting setup with LE.…
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Project creation failed (InstallShield in vs2012)

I can not create a setup project in visual studio 2012 profissional (enable installshield limited edition) I get the following error: ".. project creation failed" and no more detail already checked the folder permissions and have reseted the…
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Installshield Limited Edition - Limitations

I am new to installshield with VS2013 Community Edition. Just downloaded the Installshield Limited Edition to give a try. With this, I am able to create a setup file and able to sign the setup. My questions are Is there any limitations on using…
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Visual Studio - InstallShield setup in a project with System.Data.SQLite

I have a C# class library that references System.Data.SQLite (from nuget). This is the structure of my bin folder after build: MyProject.dll System.Data.SQLite.dll x86/SQLite.Interop.dll x64/SQLite.Interop.dll System.Data.SQLite needs the…
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Installshield limited edition asking for .Net framework files and program not running without visual studio

I have a solution in VS 2013 community edition, an I recently added a setup project with Installshield limited edition. When I re-build the solution (On release x64 mode) the installshield project warns me about the following files: Warning -6245:…
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