InstallShield Professional

A Powerful and Easy-to-Use Installation Solution
InstallShield Professional Edition is a powerful and easy-to-use solution, ideal for both novice and seasoned installation developers. While most homegrown installation tools are not optimized for current industry standards, InstallShield Professional makes your life easy by letting you take advantage of latest technologies. Try it now and see.

Using InstallShield Professional Edition, developers can:

• Reduce development time — Quickly and easily build your installations by moving pieces of an existing project (dialogs, custom actions, or features) to another installation project; create and manage re-usable project outlines so you don't have to start your installations from scratch.
• Easily customize your installations — Modify the layout of existing end-user dialogs; manage multiple product versions, allowing specific features to be included in a release via user-defined flags; and much more.
• Better control your installations with InstallScript — Add InstallScript custom actions to your MSI projects or create InstallScript projects that control your entire installation.
• Get advanced support for latest technologies — .NET Framework 4.0, IIS 7.0, Windows Server 2008 R2, Direct X 9.0c, Windows Mobile platforms, and more; edit XML files; and add 64-bit support to your installations.
• Validate your installations for Windows 7— Ensure your software installs and runs reliably on Windows 7.
  

InstallShield Professional Edition is available as either a node-locked or concurrent license. You can also optionally purchase the Virtualization Pack with the Professional Edition to support building Microsoft App-V virtual packages.

Following are the minimum requirements for systems that run InstallShield (the authoring environment), as well as for target systems that run the installations created with InstallShield (the run-time environment).

For Systems Running InstallShield:

• Processor Pentium III-class PC (500 MHz or higher recommended)
• RAM 256 MB of RAM (512 MB preferred)
• Hard Disk 500 MB free space
• Display Designed for XGA resolution at 1024 × 768 or higher
• Operating System Windows XP
  Windows Server 2003
  Windows Vista
  Windows Server 2008
  Windows 7
  Windows Server 2008 R2
• Browser Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 (IE 5.5 or later recommended)
• Privileges Administrative privileges on the system
• Mouse Microsoft IntelliMouse or other compatible pointing device

For Target Systems (Desktop Computers)
Target systems must meet the following minimum operating system requirement:
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2

For Target Systems (Mobile Devices)
InstallShield includes support for adding mobile device installations to desktop installations that use Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center or Microsoft ActiveSync to transfer files to a mobile device.

InstallShield also includes support for straight-to-device installations that do not use Windows Mobile Device Center, ActiveSync, or any other desktop component.

For an overview of the different options that InstallShield supports, see "Creating Installations for Mobile Devices" in the InstallShield Help Library.

Windows Mobile Device Requirements

InstallShield supports many Windows Mobile platforms and processors. The Windows Mobile platforms are:

• Windows Mobile 6.x Professional and Classic
• Windows Mobile 6.x Standard
• Windows Embedded CE 6.x
• Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC
• Windows Mobile 5.0 for Smartphone
• Windows CE .NET 5.0
• Windows CE .NET 4.x
• Pocket PC 2003
• Pocket PC 2002
• Pocket PC
• Palm-size PC 2.11
• Palm-size PC 2.01
• Handheld PC 2000
• Handheld PC Pro
• Handheld PC 2.0
• Smartphone 2003
• Smartphone 2002
  

Note that if a platform is not included in the list, it does not mean InstallShield does not support it. It simply means that you cannot set conditions for that specific platform by default. To add support for additional platforms or to change the conditions for targeting a specific platform, you can modify the Settings.xml file that is installed with InstallShield. For more information, see "Modifying the List of Available Windows Mobile Platforms or their Associated Settings" in the InstallShield Help Library.

InstallShield includes support for the following Windows Mobile processors:

• ARM920
• ARM820
• ARM720
• Common Executable Format
• Hitachi SH4
• Hitachi SH3E
• Hitachi SH3
• i686
• i586
• i486
• MIPS R4000
• MIPS R3000
• MIPS R2000
• SHx SH4
• SHx SH3
• StrongARM-XScale
  

Palm OS Device Requirements

InstallShield supports Palm OS 3.5 and later.

Desktop Requirements for Windows Mobile Device Installations

Requirements for the desktop computers that are used to install applications on Windows Mobile devices are:

• Microsoft ActiveSync 3.x or later on Windows XP (ActiveSync 4.x is required for Windows Mobile 5.x or later devices)
• Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows Vista
• Administrative privileges
  

Desktop Requirements for Palm OS Device Installations

Palm HotSync is required for the desktop computers that are used to install applications on Palm OS devices.