Tag: Agile Installation Development

InstallShield 2020 Release Offers Fast and Reliable Installs for Windows® Apps

Let’s face it. Everything we do in business focuses on delivering the most complete customer experience possible. For software companies competing in today’s business environment, that’s being challenged. They are under pressure to do more with less while accelerating time to market. Solutions that cater to their ability to meet customer needs and do it faster than their competitors are surely at the top of the “must have” list. Today is a good d…

May 13, 2020 Venkat Ram Donga

Webinar Q&A: Installation Best Practices—Tips for Building Upgrades, Updates and Patches

For every upgrade, update or patch you create, you have a second chance to create a great first impression with your end users. In “Installation Best Practices: Tips for Building Upgrades, Updates and Patches,” webinar attendees were eager to learn best practices to follow when creating and deploying an update-friendly Windows Installer (MSI) installation. Here are the top questions and answers from the webinar. 1. Q: When do I use a major upgrad…

January 8, 2015 Revenera

Top 10 Questions & Answers from InstallAnywhere 2014 What’s New Webinar

Thanks to all of you who were able to join us for our recent What’s New in InstallAnywhere 2014 webinar. Lots of good questions. Here are your top 10 questions and answers. And if you missed the webinar, you can view it any time, on-demand.Is it possible to manage silent installs with InstallAnywhere? Yes. InstallAnywhere Premier Edition and InstallAnywhere Premier Edition with Cloud Pack include support for running installers silently (w…

September 22, 2014 Revenera

How to Build Your First Windows Installer Using the InstallShield Project Assistant

Time is precious, especially when deadlines are looming. With that in mind, Revenera has created a series of mini-demos that offer tutorials and extra insight into the most popular features in InstallShield—easily viewable during a short break. Maybe you just need a jump start on a new feature, or want to make sure you’re following best practices. Whichever the case, InstallShield mini-demo series will give you what you need, often in less than 1…

September 2, 2014 Revenera

Upgrading Suite/Advanced UI Projects that Used InstallScript Actions to InstallShield 2014

As mentioned in the article Using InstallScript Actions in Suite/Advanced UI, InstallShield 2013 provided functionality to call InstallScript code from Suite/Advanced UI actions. However, the IDE did not provide any direct method of creating InstallScript actions or authoring code for such actions. Starting with InstallShield 2014, the IDE now includes the ability to edit InstallScript directly from a Suite/Advanced UI project. The InstallScript …

June 6, 2014 Josh Stechnij