Hi, I have InstallShiled 2010 and 2009 installed on the same dev machine. They both share the same license from the license server. However, I installed IS 2009 after installing IS 2010. My problem is that every .ism project file that I try to open, IS attempts to open it in IS 2009 environment. Is it because I installed IS 2009 after IS 2010? How can I get this fixed so that the default environment is IS 2010 and not 2009? I was thinking of uninstalling IS 2010 and then re-installing it, but want to wait and see if I can get a smarter way around it through this forum 🙂
I haven't tried it, but perhaps see if repairing the InstallShield 2010 installation will do it?
(In general, the OS should also have a mechanism for changing the default file type owner; in Windows XP, for example, it's Tools > Folder Options > File Types > type > Advanced and editing to point to the desired executable...)
It's always irked me that InstallShield doesn't have a Version Selector pattern like Visual Studio. I finally did something about it recently and wrote one. I redirected the ISM extension to my program and query it ( support both binary and xml ) to get the schema and then pass it off to the correct version of InstallShield.
