Unsupported Functions

InstallShield 2014

Some of the functions that were available in InstallShield Professional and InstallShield—Windows Installer Edition are not supported in InstallShield.

Component Functions

In InstallShield, features are the top-most level of project organization from the end user’s perspective. Because of this, component functions are now feature functions. For example, ComponentDialog is now FeatureDialog. Nearly all of the component functions are available to you as feature functions in InstallShield.

Project: Feature functions are available for use in InstallScript and InstallScript MSI project types. If you have a Basic MSI project, you must convert your project to the InstallScript MSI project type in order to use feature functions in your installation.

PreShowComponentDlg and PostShowComponentDlg

In InstallShield—Windows Installer Edition 2.x, you had to call the PreShowComponentDlg and PostShowComponentDlg functions in order to use component-related (now feature-related) functions. In InstallShield, feature-related functions are available only for InstallScript and InstallScript MSI project types. If you have a Basic MSI project, you must convert your project to the InstallScript MSI project type in order to use feature functions in your script.

Because feature functions are not supported for use in Basic MSI projects, the PreShowComponentDlg and PostShowComponentDlg functions are no longer necessary and are not supported.