Tag: InstallShield

Start Your App Modernization Journey with Microsoft’s MSIX

What is MSIX? Microsoft has announced a new packaging format – MSIX, at the Build 2018 conference. It is the next generation software deployment model for Windows platform, bringing in the best of MSI, AppX and App-V — together in a single package. MSIX has the capability to run a traditional Win32 app in a native container, achieving application isolation, ease of deployment, fully clean uninstallation and seamless software updates all at the sa…

June 12, 2018 Venkat Ram Donga

Best Practice: Open Source Risk Management

Application producers have made great strides over the years improving quality, efficiency, and time to market. Product teams today are more agile and productive than ever before. These teams continually learn which processes work best and integrate these practices into the software product lifecycle. As software development has evolved, so too has the use of open source software (OSS). Research has revealed that more than 50% of the code found i…

September 5, 2017 Revenera

Case Study: Faster Installs with Concurrent Licensing

Wondering how to reduce software packaging time? Or increasing the speed of publishing software updates? Maybe you’re just trying to make a business case for using an installation tool. Here’s a case study that can help. Consider the success story of Trend Micro. A 25-year global leader in IT security, the company felt they were failing to maximize efficiency. But after upgrading to the concurrent licensing model of InstallShield Prem…

August 31, 2017 Revenera

How Do I Build MSI, UWP and WSA App Packages from the Same Project? Find Answers in the What’s New in InstallShield 2016 Q&A

The webinar, What’s New In InstallShield 2016, highlighted the important features in this new release, including compatibility testing for Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform, mapped MSI relationships, customizable Windows tiles and more. It also provided a great Q&A session, which resulted in the important information below. Need more? Don’t forget the Flexera Community or you can contact us directly. 1. Will the packages built with Insta…

October 14, 2016 Revenera

Adding Configurations with the InstallShield Automation Interface

You can use the InstallShield Automation Interface to add product configurations and releases to an InstallShield project using the AddProductConfig and AddRelease methods. After adding a product configuration or release, you specify its properties (the properties you would ordinarily enter in the Release Wizard) using the individual automation properties of the ISWiProductConfig or ISWiRelease object you created. For example, suppose you want to…

July 12, 2016 Revenera

Speed Test an InstallShield SQL Database Connection

Having difficulty connecting to a SQL server in InstallShield? Here is a quick way to test SQL connectivity outside of the product as a first troubleshooting step. If you cannot connect this way, then the problem is likely with your environment, not the software installer. Right-click on the desktop, or the folder where you want to create a file. Select New, then Text Document. Give the Text Document any name with a .udl extension (“Show f…

November 10, 2015 Revenera