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InstallShield from Revenera is the industry standard for developers creating installers for Windows desktops, servers, virtual and cloud platforms. Preparing for MSIX? InstallShield is ready.
Create Professional Installations
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Support for fonts in MSIX
Ability to install fonts in an MSIX package so that the fonts are available for other apps in the machine. |
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Build InstallShield Projects in an Azure DevOps Pipeline
InstallShield provides a native Azure DevOps Extension to build InstallShield projects in Azure DevOps pipelines. You can use in both a private agent or a Microsoft hosted agent. |
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| MSIX – Modification Packages | - | ||
| MSIX – Support for MSIX Core | - | ||
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Pure 64 installers
Build pure 64-bit installers for Basic MSI and Suite installers. |
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| MSIX Bundles | - | ||
| MSIX – Support for Services | - | ||
| AWS CloudHSM-based Digital Signing | |||
| Simplified Builds Within Docker | |||
| Automated Patch Design | - | ||
| Create Windows® Installer (MSI) Installations | |||
| Create Windows Installer Patches (MSP) | Limited | ||
| Create MSIX packages | - | ||
| Easily convert any MSI file into an MSIX package | - | ||
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Create InstallScript (Setup.exe) Installations
Use our proprietary scripting language - InstallScript to fully script each and every component of your installer. |
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Create Advanced Bootstrappers with Suite Installations
Use the suite project to bundle multiple installers like .exe, .msi, .prq, .appv or .msix - all into a single package so that your users can have a single consistent experience. |
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Streaming Installations that Download Installation Components as Needed
Create light weight installers by configuring the Suite project to download selected components on the fly from a web location rather than bundling everything with your installer. This keeps the installer very light. |
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| Install/Upgrade Multi-Instance Product Installations | - | ||
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Check for the Latest Version of a Setup Any Time an Installation is Run
Use our suite updates feature to alert your users for latest version of the installers before the deployment begins. |
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Advanced UI Editor
Leverage our WYSIWYG editor to fully customize the installer experience and preview the experience during development. |
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| Windows Installer Dialog Editor | - | ||
| End-User Dialog Themes for Windows Installer-Based Projects | Limited | Basic | |
| Billboard Support for Custom Branding | - | ||
| One-Click Installations from the Web | |||
| DLL, EXE, VBScript, and JScript Custom Actions | |||
| Extend Suite/Advanced UI Projects with C# and InstallScript Actions | - | - | |
| PowerShell Custom Actions | - | ||
| Managed-Code Custom Actions | - | ||
| Easily View MSI Table Relationships' | - | ||
| Support for Microsoft® Certificate Requirements including SHA 1 and SHA-256 | |||
| Design DPI-Aware Installations | |||
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| Multilingual Support – 35 Languages | - | - | |
| Unicode Support in Most InstallShield Views | |||
| Create Pure 64-Bit Installations (Windows Installer) | - | ||
| Install 64-bit Applications | |||
| Install Windows Device Drivers Using DIFx 2.1.1 | - | ||
| Support for .NET Framework 4.5 (32-bit and 64-bit) | |||
| Multi-Tier Installation Template | - | - | |
| Install Web Applications to Microsoft® Azure™ and Microsoft® IIS using Microsoft Web Deploy | - | - | |
| PowerShell Suite Actions for Server Configuration | - | - | |
| Enable Windows Roles and Features During Your Installation | - | - | |
| Deploy Databases to Microsoft SQL Server/Oracle/MySQL/Azure SQL Databases | - | ||
| Database Import Wizard | - | ||
| Deploy Websites to IIS 8 with SSL Certificates | Limited | ||
| IIS Web Services Support | |||
| IIS Tools for Web Apps | Limited | Limited | |
| XML File Updating | - | ||
| Configure Windows Users and Groups | - | ||
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| Identify what existing InstallShield projects require change to meet Microsoft MSIX standards | - | ||
| Provision Virtual Machines from the InstallShield IDE for Testing Installations | - | - | |
| Monitor for COM Extraction (32-bit and 64-bit) | |||
| Registry-Free COM Registration (Application Manifests) | - | ||
| COM+ Support | |||
| Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for Windows Installer Installations | |||
| Library of Redistributable Prerequisites for InstallScript Installations | - | ||
| Associate Prerequisites with Features | |||
| Prerequisite Editor | - | ||
| Network Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates with Team Members | - | - | |
| Local Repositories to Share Dialogs, Scripts and Templates Across Multiple Projects | - | ||
| Automate Events at Build Time | - | - | |
| Reusable Project Templates | - | ||
| LZX Compression Option (Windows Installer Projects) | |||
| Display Installation Progress on the Taskbar | |||
| Easily Edit Runtime Installation Strings | - | ||
| Specify Custom Icon and Version Resource Properties | Partial | ||
| Virtual Machine Detection | - | ||
| Easily Edit XML Files During Installation | - | ||
| Easily Edit Text Files on the Destination Machine During Installation | - | ||
| Easily Create System Searches | Limited | ||
| Mark Files for Deletion as Part of an Installation Through Interaction with MSI RemoveFiles Action | |||
| Enforce End User License Agreement (EULA) Reading Before Installing | - | ||
| Call .NET Assemblies from InstallScript | - | ||
| Command-Line Builder | |||
| Complete Project Debugging | - | ||
| Source Code Control Integration | - | ||
| Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration | |||
| Microsoft Build Engine (MSBuild) Support | |||
| Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2019 Integration | |||
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