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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 Edition for Visual Studio. The problem is, when I open up my solution in VS2012 and try to add a new "Enable InstallShield Limited Edition" project to my solution, I get an error message saying: Creating project 'test'...project creation failed. Why might I not be able to add a project of this type to my solution? If I make a new empty solution I can't

I just started to learn InstallShield LE because it seems the only "officially" supported installer project. But I have one simple question that I can't even get a absolute answer: does ISLE support building a 64bit installer? I am asking because I found at least two posts saying that it is impossible, like this one: Replacing VS Setup projects with Installshield Limited Edition problematic . However, I can't get a (negative or positive)confirmation from flexera's website. They don't even seem to have a forum for LE version. Anyone has the experience can confirm that? Thanks! InstallShield

I trigger an c# application by an custom action: On failing condition, my application tells Install Shield to abort the installation process using an exit code: static void Main(string[] args) { if(false) { Environment.ExitCode = 1; } } Using this approach, Install shield´s setup displays an error message like expected: How can I overwrite that error message by a custom text? Reading between the lines here, it appears your custom action launches an EXE. If that is so, there is no way to do what you ask. You could show a message from your EXE before returning a non-zero exit code, but then

i want to add Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 to my VS InstallShield LE Project Redistributables I've done this steps: i'm create a Microsoft SQL CE 4.0.prq file(modify it like Microsoft SQL CE 3.5 SP2.prq) and Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 folder in this path : C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2012SpringLE\SetupPrerequisites i copy the SSCERuntime_x86-ENU.exe and SSCERuntime_x64-ENU.exe in Microsoft SQL CE 4.0 folder and Result: The project was built successfully, But the installer can't install SQL CE 4.0.. Can anyone help me? Christopher Painter InstallShield Limited Edition doesn't have the Prereq editor

I'm trying to use Install Shield LE to package an distribute a winforms app. This is working well and I even have .net 4.5 redistributable packaged in the setup.exe. The issue I am having is I am now creating a version 1.4 of my app, and I want it to successfully uninstall the old versions (1.0 thru 1.3) and install the new. So far I haven't been successful; every time I run the new setup.exe I get a warning saying that the current version has to be uninstalled first using programs and features in control panel. Does anyone have a decent tutorial or some guidance that could help me improve my

When I add a dependency to my installer, I'm always left with a hard coded path to the file. According to this blog , the only way around this is to manually change the hard coded paths in the ISL file with the ISProjectFolder variable. This isn't any good as the file will get blitzed every time I rebuild the installer. I've also seen path variables mentioned but there seems to be no feature for them in InstallShield LE. Anyone got any ideas? fixed relative paths for file content to be copied by the Install Shield Limited Edition to the output directory ( Visual Studio 2012 ) Steps: Expand

I am working on a WPF desktop application and I am deploying through an install file generated by InstallShield Limited Edition. I would like the installer to prompt the user and remove any previous versions of the application before installing the new version. I suspect this is done via the Upgrade Paths option in InstallShield, but I can't get it figured out. Answer goes to an explanation or a link to a decent how-to, tutorial or manual page that answers my question. At the moment, when running the installer, I get: "Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this