biomedi

I'm currently doing some investigation on moving off of the installation package we currently use (Wise Installer 9) and moving to something that will handle things like Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 64-bit systems. Localization of the installers would be of benefit since we do have a number of French Canadian clients as well. We currently have installations for software packages and utilities in the following technologies: • Progress 4GL • Visual Studio 2005 • Visual Studio 2008 •.NET Compact Framework 3.5 I've already looked at and, and also the for the old Wise system. I haven't played with InstallShield much at all yet, but from everything I've seen/installed it seems to be one of the industry favourites. I've browsed through some of the Stack Overflow tags relating to and I'm curious to see what the group says about it. Do I just by default go to them?

Decompile Setup.exe - posted in InstallShield Express. First post on this site, so I hope I'm in the right place. If not, sorry about that.

How good is WiX at non.NET stuff? How good is WiX at non.NET stuff? WiX has support for all features by design.

Windows installer predates.NET. Personally I prefer WiX over InstallShield because • the XML text format allows review of commits, merging of changes between branches • build automation should include setup generation, which is easy with WiX • wixlib files with component group definitions allow for modular setup development. Photoimpression Free. No need to worry about the dependencies of the dependencies, etc. • no licensing or deployment headaches, we simply include the WiX toolset in a /tools folder of our projects in When we used InstallShield, these were all pain points. WiX does have a very steep learning curve though.

I haven't used InstallShield in a few years. At my last job we moved away from it to NSIS mainly because its binary format made version control difficult, and because a few times the source file simply became corrupted, with no hope for recovery. That might have been related to of course! On top of that though, it was needlessly complicated.