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Mon, Sep 27 2010 9:31

Links of the week 38

This time all the links are related to Microsoft's announcement that Visual Studio Installer will be retired. While the announcement is dated July 15, 2010, apparently many people hadn't noticed it until I blogged about it last week. This resulted...
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Thu, Sep 23 2010 14:38

Microsoft will retire Visual Studio Installer

Since the release of Visual Studio 2010 users can get a limited edition of InstallShield free of charge. I just came across an announcement from Microsoft which has been posted two months ago. Candy Chiang, Program Manager Visual Studio Deployment, announces...
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Thu, Jun 24 2010 10:40

Advanced Installer 7.7 adds full support for Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0

On June 17th, 2010 Caphyon Ltd. announced the release of Advanced Installer 7.7. This release adds full support for the latest Microsoft development tools: Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0. The included Installer Repackager has also been improved...
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Thu, Apr 15 2010 16:27

Visual Studio 2010 and InstallShield LE available

On April 12 Microsoft released Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4. MSDN subscribers can download the English version immediately, the free Express edition and a trial version of Visual Studio Professional are also available for download. Localized...
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Sat, Jan 9 2010 15:44

More Information about InstallShield LE for Visual Studio

In addition to my blog post in December 2009 , here are links to some additional resources about the limited edition of InstallShield that will be included with Visual Studio 2010: InstallShield Limited Edition is available for download in Visual Studio...
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Wed, Dec 9 2009 22:24

InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2010 (Beta) now available

As reported before , Visual Studio 2010 (currently in beta) includes an "InstallShield 2010" project template in the "Setup and Deployment" category. Back then the link didn't work, but now it's live. From the "InstallShield...
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Mon, Nov 2 2009 10:02

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 includes link to InstallShield Limited Edition

Some beta testers of Visual Studio 2010 pointed out that in the New Project dialog there is a new template called "InstallShield 2010". It's listed next to "Visual Studio Installer" under Other Project Types > Setup and Deployment...
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Fri, Apr 3 2009 6:07

No joke – WiX will NOT Ship with Visual Studio

Several months ago, Microsoft had announced that the next version of Visual Studio (Visual Studio 2010, code name Rosario) will ship with a subset of the Windows Installer XML Toolkit ( WiX ). But on April 1st, 2009, Rob Mensching, the WiX project lead...
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Thu, Jan 3 2008 19:16

InstallShield Support for Visual Studio 2008, .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9

Macrovision released updates for InstallShield 2008 to support integration with Visual Studio 2008 and redistribution of the .NET Framework 3.5 and VC++ 9 runtime files: HOTFIX: Beta Support for Visual Studio 2008 UPDATE: InstallShield 2008 Basic MSI...
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Tue, Nov 27 2007 0:20

Microsoft to "productize" WiX

Rob Mensching reports that Microsoft will include a sub-set of the Windows Installer XML toolkit ( WiX ) in the next version of Visual Studio, code named Rosario. WiX is an open source project for authoring of Windows Installer (MSI) setups. While Microsoft...
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