bump... Any additional ideas? Nothing I'm trying has any result. Any way to get a log from the installation attempts (even though it claims successful), verify values that should be getting put in place in the registry, etc etc? Can it be installed manually somehow from inside visual studio? This should not be so hard. ... View more

I followed jlynch11's suggestions--Install shield was not in the list of installed products, so i registered the dlls and ran devenv command as described in jlynch11's post. However after following this advice, it is still not listed in the installed products list, or the add project dialog. ... View more

bump.... Any ideas why I'm not able to use a deployment project? ... View more

Please see attached requested screenshot. ... View more

jlynch11 wrote: Were you able to activate ISLE? Try opening InstallShield from the Start menu >All Programs >InstallShield > InstallShield 2015 Limited Edition. It should open up in Visual Studio if it is activated; if not, the activation screen will pop up. Complete the activation and the project type should show up. If the product is activated and you still don't see the project type, you can use TSConfig.exe to repair the Visual Studio integration. Do do this, close InstallShield / Visual Studio, open a command prompt, and navigate to the default location: C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield\2015LE run this command to repair the integration: TSConfig /repairvsip Note: You can also trigger the ISLE activation by running TSConfig /activate I hope this helps. I was able to activate prior by manually running tsconfig by browsing to it via windows explorer (this was done prior to posting in the forum, just forgot to mention it). I tried your advice with the "TSConfig /repairvsip" command, but it did not resolve the issue. ... View more