Reference

InstallShield 2024

Project: The information applies to the following project types:

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Advanced UI

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Basic MSI

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DIM

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InstallScript

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InstallScript MSI

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InstallScript Object

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Merge Module

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MSI Database

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MSIX

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MSM Database

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QuickPatch

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Suite/Advanced UI

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Transform

Reference information for InstallShield is organized into the following sections:

Reference Selections
Section	Description
Menu, Toolbar, and Window Reference	Describes the various components of the InstallShield user interface, including menus, toolbars, and windows.
Dialog Box Reference	Contains reference information on each of the dialog boxes that are displayed in InstallShield.
Wizard Reference	Provides details about each of the wizards that are available in InstallShield.
View Reference	Describes each of the views that are displayed in InstallShield.
InstallShield Prerequisite Editor Reference	Introduces you to the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor, which is available with InstallShield. Use this tool to create InstallShield prerequisites that you can include in your projects, or to edit existing ones.
Errors and Warnings	Provides information about error codes and warnings that might occur when you create, compile, build, or run your installation. This section also includes reference information about errors and warnings that may occur when you migrate a project from an earlier version of an InstallShield product to the latest version.
Automation Interface	Contains reference material that describes the objects, methods, properties, and collections that you can use to create, modify, and build a project through the automation interface.
Object Reference for Expressions in Advanced UI and Suite/Advanced UI Projects	Explains each of the objects that you can use to embed object expressions in various settings of an Advanced UI or Suite/Advanced UI project. Object expressions enable you to search target systems for information about a file, registry entry, or other item. At run time, the installation expands the value of the expression and searches the target system.
InstallShield Custom Action Reference	Explains each of the custom actions that are available in InstallShield.
Command-Line Tools	Introduces tools that you can use from the command line to perform tasks such as building a release and running an installation.
InstallScript Language Reference	Provides in-depth information about functions, data types, event handlers, operators, and other aspects of InstallScript, a simple but powerful programming language that you can use to design your installations. This section also contains sample code that you can use in your script file.