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New Features in V2010
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| Microsoft App-V Support Deploy your applications as App-V virtual packages that run without conflict. |
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| Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, and MSI 5 Support Get a head start on supporting Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and build setups that leverage the new features of Windows Installer 5 More » |
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| Stay Current with the Latest Microsoft Technologies InstallShield 2010 enables you to run SQL scripts on SQL Server SP1 (available in InstallShield Premier and Professional Editions only), and includes support for SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1 for mobile device installations. |
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| Improved, Time-Saving IDE New flattened architecture and dynamic search tools will save you tons of time. |
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| String Editor View Control the localizable text strings displayed at run time with this spreadsheet-like table. |
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| Text File Changes View This new view lets you configure search-and-replace behavior for content in text files (such as .txt, .htm, .xml, .config, .ini, and .sql files) that you want to modify at run time on the target system. The text files can be part of your installation, or they can be files that are already present on target systems. |
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| IIS Tools for Web Apps New IIS scanner and improved view make it easy to create IIS Web sites, applications, and virtual directories. More » |
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| InstallScript Prerequisites InstallShield 2010 now enables you to add InstallShield prerequisites to your InstallScript projects. InstallShield prerequisites are redistributables that usually install a product or technology framework required by your application. If you work on a mix of different project types, InstallShield 2010 lets you simplify your testing matrix by enabling you to reuse this type of redistributable in all of your Basic MSI, InstallScript, and InstallScript MSI projects. |
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| Virtual Machine Detection Virtual machines have been a licensing and compliance challenge for software vendors. If you don’t want your products to run on virtual machines, InstallShield 2010 has the answer. It can now build installations that detect when they are being run on virtual machines like Microsoft Hyper-V and Virtual PC or VMware and optionally block the installation. |
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| Setting Permissions Overcome MSI LockPermissions limitations such as adding permissions without overwriting existing ones. |
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| Unicode Support InstallShield 2010 takes a three-pronged approach to fully supporting modern multi-language installations: Windows Installer databases can now be built in a Unicode format, InstallShield projects are now stored in a Unicode format, and the InstallShield interface now supports entering and viewing Unicode characters from multiple character sets at the same time. |
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| Support for 64-Bit COM Extraction InstallShield 2010 now supports 64-bit COM extraction. If you are using InstallShield on a 64-bit system, it can extract COM data from a 64-bit COM server. In order to install the data to the correct locations, the component must be marked as 64 bit. |
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| New InstallShield Prerequisites InstallShield includes a number of new InstallShield prerequisites that you can add to your projects including:
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Billboard Support for Custom Branding Display Adobe Flash billboards and other graphic files during the install process. more» |
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Support for HTML Controls on InstallScript Dialogs InstallShield 2010 includes support for HTML controls on dialogs in InstallScript and InstallScript MSI projects more» |
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Displaying Installation Progress on the Taskbar Installations that are run on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 now show a progress bar on the Windows taskbar during file transfer. |
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