Additional modules/prerequisites for InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition
Dear community,
we are using InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition in our company.
The problem is that we have to create a setup that includes the following merge modules or setup prerequisites:
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express (x86 and x64) and Windows Installer 4.5 (x86 and x64).
The setup of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express requires an installation of Windows Installer 4.5 which is also not included in InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition.
Is there any possibility to include both of the named applications in InstallShield 2008 Premier Edition or do we have to purchase InstallShield 2010?
InstallShield 2008 was released before Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express and Windows Installer 4.5 were released, so that version of InstallShield did not ship with prereqs for those redistributables.
Ordinarily, you would be able to create your own prerequisites using the Prerequisite Editor that is included with InstallShield in scenarios such as that. However, the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Express prerequisite requires a new type of registry condition (A registry entry has a specified version value) that was not available or supported in InstallShield 2008. InstallShield 2010 has this support; in addition, it contains the prebuilt .prq files for SQL Server 2008 Express and Windows Installer 4.5, so you wouldn't need to bother creating them yourself. So, if you want to include prereqs for SQL Server 2008 Express and Windows Installer 4.5 in your projects, I think you would need to upgrade to InstallShield 2010.
