Aug 16, 2022
10:14 AM
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InstallShield 2022 R1 will include support for upgrading and building existing InstallShield projects in Visual Studio 2022, via UI and MSBuild. Support for creating new projects wouldn't be supported in 2022 R1. The organization I work for recently purchased an InstallShield 2022 R1 license (Premiere) for over $7,000. I can confirm that while this version does allow you to build existing InstallShield projects within Visual Studio 2022, you cannot edit the installer project in anyway. This includes not even updating the version number of the MSI nor adding/removing of files through Visual Studio 2022. It is also worth noting that if your InstallShield project has multiple "Release" configurations that you cannot change the InstallShield "Default Configuration" of the release from within Visual Studio 2022. This particular setting is also not something that can be set if you decide to use the InstallShield 2022 R1 Application GUI either since that setting is in the .isproj and not the .ism It is also worth noting that if you rely on a combination (or have multiple) Visual Studio build configurations that expect to be paired with different InstallShield 'Releases' configurations then you may have to hand-edit the InstallShield project files or Visual Studio solution files in order to build the different 'Releases' of the installer depending on how your continuous integration is set up. If you only have one InstallShield 'Releases' configuration, then you might not have this problem as it will incidentally be the 'Default Configuration' every time. I am laying all this out in case it helps anyone going forward when deciding whether to take the plunge on purchasing InstallShield 2022 R1.
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Jul 18, 2022
12:51 PM
Currently my organization cannot upgrade to using Visual Studio 2022 because our InstallShield 2019 R3 only works with the 32-bit IDEs.
I have read that InstallShield 2022 R1 will now let us upgrade our existing installers and build them in Visual Studio 2022, but we cannot create new install projects until InstallShield 2022 R2 is released.
So if my organization purchases a license for InstallShield 2022 R1, will we be entitled to upgrade for free to InstallShield 2022 R2 when that is eventually released, or do we need to wait until InstallShield 2022 R2 is released before purchasing a new license?
Related question. I know InstallShield 2022 R1 will not allow us to create new install projects, but will it allow us to modify our existing installer project to add new files to the installer project?
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