Announcing InstallShield 2019 R3

We are excited to share that InstallShield 2019 R3 is now available! This installment’s new features help you integrate InstallShield in your DevOps processes more easily, and also provides many improvements for MSIX conversions. Below is the summary of the new capabilities added in this release. Simplified Builds Within Docker Integrate InstallShield into your DevOps process with added support to build projects within Docker containers. …

December 27, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

New Features Now Available in InstallAnywhere 2020

We are pleased to announce that InstallAnywhere 2020 is now available. Let’s take a sneak peak on what’s new. Support for macOS app notarization Apple is going to make application notarization mandatory for 3rd party apps starting January 2020 (click here for more details). This is going to affect Mac versions 10.14.5 and above including the latest macOS Catalina. With the latest release of InstallAnywhere, you can add app notarization support to…

October 10, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

MSIX – Package Support Framework in InstallShield

In our continued support for MSIX, we have reached yet another milestone. InstallShield 2019 adds a new feature to support Package Support Framework for traditional Win32 apps to run seamlessly in MSIX container environment. What is Package Support Framework? Package Support Framework is a toolkit from Microsoft targeted at fixing up traditional Win32 apps that have limitations running in the modern MSIX container. For more details, you can read …

August 27, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga

Surprise—Nightly Builds Without a Full InstallShield License

Are you still using your full InstallShield license for nightly builds? Did you know you could make modifications to the project without a full InstallShield interface and license? In the world of agile and DevOps, are you still relying on one engineer/machine to build your project? If that’s the case, you are missing out on a core piece of InstallShield – Standalone Build (SAB). What is Standalone Build in InstallShield? If you are reading this …

January 30, 2019 Venkat Ram Donga