InstallShield 2009

InstallShield lets you easily create Windows Installer and InstallScript installations and extend them to database servers, Web services, and mobile devices.

The InstallShield Help Library contains information about the functionality and features of InstallShield. The Help Library contains the following sections:

Help Library Sections
Section	Description
What’s New in InstallShield 2009 SP1	Informs you about the changes in InstallShield 2009 Service Pack 1.
What’s New in InstallShield 2009	Informs you about the changes in InstallShield 2009.
What Was New in Earlier Versions of InstallShield	Informs you about changes that were made in earlier versions of InstallShield.
Target System Requirements	Lists the requirements for target systems.
Using Help	Provides information about the InstallShield documentation.
Getting Started	Contains information to help you become familiar with InstallShield, begin creating an installation project, and customize the InstallShield user interface.
Tutorials	Leads you step-by-step through the process of creating InstallScript and Basic MSI installation projects, creating global installations, and adding DIM references to a project.
Creating Installations	Explains how to create user-friendly, reliable installations and guides you through every step of the process—from specifying information for Add or Remove Programs to building, testing, and deploying an installation.
Designing InstallShield Prerequisites and Other Redistributables	Introduces some basic concepts to help you get started designing your own InstallShield prerequisites, merge modules, and InstallScript objects that can be used in any of your installation projects or distributed for use by other installation developers.
Updating Applications	Leads you through steps for planning and implementing the various types of upgrades and patches for updating a product. Also explains how you can use FLEXnet Connect to notify end users about upgrades and patches that are available.
Additional Installation Options	Discusses a broad range of options available in InstallShield: creating multilingual installations, installing multiple instances of a product, building conditional statements, searching for installed data, editing installation tables, and more.
Integrating InstallShield with External Applications	Contains details about integrating InstallShield with third-party tools such as source code control software and Microsoft Visual Studio.
Automating Build Processes	Provides information about the InstallShield automation interface, which enables you to automate processes for creating installation projects without having to directly open the InstallShield user interface.
Reference	Contains comprehensive reference information for the InstallShield user interface; the InstallScript language; errors and warnings that might occur when you create, compile, build, or run your installation; tools that you can use from the command line to perform tasks such as building a release and running an installation; the InstallShield custom actions that are added to projects; and objects, methods, properties, and collections used to modify an installation project through the automation interface.
Frequently Asked Questions	Directs you to help topics that answer many commonly asked questions about InstallShield and project creation.
Glossary	Contains a collection of terms and their meanings.

Because the InstallShield Help Library is designed to interact with InstallShield, it is recommended that you open the help from within InstallShield. Copying the help files to another folder or system causes many of its features to work incorrectly.

For answers to many commonly asked questions and new information about InstallShield that do not appear in the documentation, visit the Knowledge Base.