InstallShield Help

Here in this blog I would be adding various resources which you can use to start learing the InstallShield.You cannot learn anything if you don't show any Interest in it. If you are a new learner start by understading the What is installshield, why it is needed, How InstallShield can help you to deploy your application. Next step is to start familiarizing with all the InstallShield interfaces and learn how to use them. Create some simple package which uses all your learning. InstallShield comes with its own learning curve.InstallShield actually hides the complexity of the msi, you need not know msi to create a package, but if you want to be an expert you also need to learn MSI. Infact if you are familiar with the msi, you know 75% of Installshield.

Like human and animals all the software products also needs some environment where it can survive and it can behave the way you want. If you try to run the software in a environment which is not sutiable for it, software or your application will fail. I have writtern a small application and that needs a dll, uses some value from the registry, and it needs on IE6 or higher and runs only on vista. How to run the such an application? I will first check for all the dependencies, will place all the dependent file in one folder/directoy, will register the dlls and create shortcut to application ( main exe with all the requirement arguments ) to run the application. These things I have done manually, I cannot ask the other users of the application to follow the installation steps. Most of the users would be impatient, they don't want to waste time reading through the Install guide and follow the steps. They want some sort of automatic installation, where you just click on exe/msi , answer few basic questions and you are Installer takes care of creating the environment which would be conducive for the application to run. That is what the you do with InstallShield. With the InstallShield you create a package which automates all the manual tasks. Your pacakge can be simple which does basic installation and and sometimes your it can become really complex.

This is not InstallShield tutorial, you need to read the InstallShield documentation to understand the complete InstallShield. But this blog try to help you by providing all the required documents and suggestions at one place.

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