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InstallShield makes it easier than ever for developers to maintain a single installation project to support both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. New functionality in InstallShield gives you more power to deploy applications on 64-bit Windows 7 and Windows Server operating systems:
- Support for 64-bit managed custom code actions: InstallShield determines the target architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) of the main .NET assembly associated with a customer action and ensures that the appropriate version of the .NET Framework (32-bit or 64-bit) is used to run the managed code at run time.
- Enhanced SQL dialog support: If you add SQL support to an installation project, InstallShield dialogs now list 64-bit local and network SQL Server instances.
- Ability to override path variables: If you have a separate release for 32-bit and 64-bit target systems, InstallShield saves you time and effort by overriding path variables to ensure that 32-bit items get included with the 32-bit release and 64-bit items get included with the 64-bit release (image below).
- 64-bit MSI repackaging: InstallShield Repackager now supports repackaging 64-bit applications to create MSI installations.
- 64-bit App-V support: InstallShield can now create 64-bit Microsoft App-V virtual packages to deploy virtual applications on 64-bit Windows systems.
