InstallShield 2011 with Hotfix 17.01

InstallShield is the industry standard for authoring high-quality Windows Installer– and InstallScript-based installations, as well as Microsoft App-V packages. InstallShield 2011 offers many new features and enhancements that make it easy to use the latest technologies, improve the quality and reliability of your products, increase your productivity, and collaborate with other team members.

With InstallShield 2011, InstallScript installations and InstallScript custom actions support Unicode, a necessity for developing modern multilanguage installations. If you use Team Foundation Server, you can take advantage of the new tight integration with InstallShield as you develop, maintain, build, test, and deploy your products and their installations. Now you can specify custom source locations for InstallShield prerequisites; this flexibility enables you to easily add to your projects InstallShield prerequisites that are stored in source code control and to share a common set of prerequisites across multiple machines. InstallShield also lets you emphasize your brand with customizable Setup.exe properties and icons, streamline your build process by specifying commands to be run automatically during various stages of builds, and increase your efficiency with improved script editors. Several other new advancements make it easier for you to create 64-bit installations or 64-bit App-V packages.

Hotfix A for InstallShield 2011 lets you add to Basic MSI, Merge Module, and Express projects any DIM files that contain shortcut sets and shortcuts that were added in InstallShield Collaboration. It also includes additional changes. It is recommended that all users of InstallShield 2011 Premier, Professional, and Express install this hotfix.