Removal of Outdated and Obsolete Items in InstallShield 2013

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Summary

As of InstallShield 2013, InstallShield no longer has support for a number of outdated technologies. Many of these technologies have reached their end-of-life milestone and are no longer supported by Microsoft. This article contains a list of those items.

Synopsis

As of InstallShield 2013, InstallShield no longer has support for a number of outdated technologies. Many of these technologies have reached their end-of-life milestone and are no longer supported by Microsoft. This article contains a list of those items.

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Discussion

The following items have been removed from InstallShield:

• ClickOnce Deployment projects
• Netscape support
• Visual Basic dependency scanner
• Visual Basic Wizard (for importing Visual Basic 6 projects)
• Release settings for Windows Installer 2.0
• Release settings for Windows Installer 3.0

The following redistributables are no longer included in InstallShield:

• Access 2000/2002/2003
• Access 97
• ADO Data Control 6.0
• Crystal Reports 8
• Crystal Reports 8.3 Service Pack 3
• Crystal Reports 8.5
• DAO 3.50
• DAO 3.60
• DCOM 95
• InstallShield MSDE 2000 Object for NT Platforms
• Internet Explorer 6
• Jet 3.51
• Jet 4.0 (with DAO 3.6)
• Jet 4.0 SP8 for Windows 2000
• Microsoft Chart Control 6.0
• Microsoft Chart VB Control
• Microsoft Chart VB Control
• Microsoft Comm Control 6.0
• Microsoft Common Dialog Control 6.0
• Microsoft Component Category Manager Library
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8
• Microsoft Data Access Components 2.5
• Microsoft Data Access Components 2.6
• Microsoft Data Access Components 2.7
• Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8
• Microsoft Data Binding Collection VB 6.0
• Microsoft Data Bound Grid Control 5.0
• Microsoft Data Bound List Controls 6.0
• Microsoft Data Environment Runtime
• Microsoft Data Formating Object Library 6.0
• Microsoft Data Report Designer 6.0
• Microsoft DataGrid Control 6.0
• Microsoft DataList Controls 6.0
• Microsoft DataRepeater Control 6.0
• Microsoft DHTML Page Runtime Library 1.0
• Microsoft FlexGrid Control 6.0
• Microsoft Hierarchical FlexGrid Control 6.0
• Microsoft Internet Transfer Control 6.0
• Microsoft Jet Database Engine 3.51
• Microsoft Jet Database Engine 4.0
• Microsoft MAPI Controls 6.0
• Microsoft Mask VB Control
• Microsoft Masked Edit Control 6.0
• Microsoft Multimedia Control 6.0
• Microsoft PictureClip Control 6.0
• Microsoft Remote Data Object 2.0
• Microsoft RemoveData Control 6.0
• Microsoft Rich Textbox Control Library
• Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE 2000) SP3a
• Microsoft Stock Property Page 6.0
• Microsoft SysInfo Control 6.0
• Microsoft Tabbed Dialog Control 6.0
• Microsoft Typelib Information Library
• Microsoft Visual Basic Virtual Machine 6.0
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7 HTML Help Support Library
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro 7 Runtime Libraries
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro ODBC Driver
• Microsoft Visual FoxPro OLE DB Provider
• Microsoft WebClass Library 1.0
• Microsoft Windows Common Controls (5.0)
• Microsoft Windows Common Controls (6.0)
• Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 (5.0)
• Microsoft Windows Common Controls-2 (6.0)
• Microsoft Windows Common Controls-3 (6.0)
• Microsoft Winsock Control 6.0
• MSDE 2000
• MSDE 2000 Connectivity Components
• MSDE 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS)
• MSDE 2000 Distributed Management Objects (DMO)
• MSDE 2000 Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC)
• MSDE 2000 DMO Resources
• MSDE 2000 DTS Resources
• MSDE 2000 Replication
• MSDE 2000 Replication Resources
• MSDE 2000 SCM Developer Files
• MSDE 2000 SEM Resources
• MSDE 2000 Setup Base Merge Module
• MSDE 2000 Shared Files
• MSDE 2000 SQL Agent
• MSDE 2000 SQL Agent Resources
• MSDE 2000 SQL Enterprise Manager
• MSDE 2000 SQL Server Core Files
• MSDE 2000 SQL Server Core Resources
• MSDE 2000 Tools
• MSDE 2000 Tools Resources
• MSDE 2000 Upgrade Files
• OLE Automation
• OLE DB 2.1
• Palm OS
• RDO 2.0
• Visual Basic Remote Server Deployment
• Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.0
• Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1
• Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 2.0
• WebData std Library
• Windows Installer 2.0 (NT-Based)
• Windows Installer 3.0
• Windows Mobile
• Windows Scripting Host 5.6

Additional Information

InstallShield 2013 Release Notes
InstallShield 2013 Express Release Notes