InstallShield

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InstallShield is a software tool for creating installers or software packages. InstallShield was also the name of the company who originally created it until it was acquired by Macrovision in 2004. Macrovision is currently adding the FLEXnet name to the well-known InstallShield brand in its products and web site.

The two primary types of installer that can be created by the Windows version of the InstallShield tool are called Basic MSI and InstallScript. Basic MSI projects are built into Windows Installer (MSI) packages, and InstallScript projects are created using an event-based script and built into setup.exe executables. (A third type of project, called InstallScript MSI, exists, using the InstallScript programming language for the user interface and customization of the installer, and the Windows Installer engine for the data-transfer part of the installer.)

[edit] External links

• InstallShield's page on the Macrovision web site
• unshield is a program for extracting InstallShield "cab" files without running the installer. InstallShield has many more capabilities.