Application Data View

InstallShield 2026

Project: The Application Data view is available in the following project types:

• Basic MSI
• DIM
• InstallScript
• InstallScript MSI
• InstallScript Object
• Merge Module
• MSI Database
• MSM Database
• Transform

Application data includes all of the files that you add to your project.

Files and Folders

Project: The Files and Folders view is available in the following project types:

• Basic MSI
• DIM
• InstallScript
• InstallScript MSI
• InstallScript Object
• Merge Module
• MSI Database
• MSM Database
• Transform

The Files and Folders view lets you add files to your project. This view behaves similarly to Windows Explorer, enabling you to drag and drop files into your project. For installation projects, you can select which feature and component you would like your files associated with and the destination directory for those files.

Redistributables

Project: The Redistributables view is available in the following project types:

• Basic MSI
• InstallScript MSI
• MSI Database
• Transform

The Redistributables view enables you to add InstallShield objects and merge modules to Windows Installer–based projects. Including redistributables to your project lets you add distinct pieces of functionality to your installation. Examples of these types of functionality include Visual Basic run-time .dll files and the Microsoft C run-time libraries.

You can also use the Redistributables view to add InstallShield prerequisites to Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI projects. An InstallShield prerequisite is an installation for a product or technology framework that is required by your product. You can add any of the existing InstallShield prerequisites to your installation projects and configure many of their settings. You can also create your own InstallShield prerequisites, and add them to your projects.

Including InstallShield prerequisites in your project enables you to chain multiple installations together, bypassing the Windows Installer limitation that permits only one Execute sequence to be run at a time. The Setup.exe setup launcher serves as a bootstrap application that manages the chaining.

Prerequisites

Project: The Prerequisites view is available in the following project type:

• InstallScript

The Prerequisites view enables you to add InstallShield prerequisites to InstallScript projects.

Objects

Project: The Objects view is available in the following project types:

• InstallScript
• InstallScript Object

The Objects view enables you to add objects and merge modules to InstallScript and InstallScript Object projects.

See Also

Files and Folders View

Redistributables View

Prerequisites View

Objects View