Upgrading InstallShield 11.5 or Earlier InstallScript MSI Object Projects or Projects that Contain This Type of Object

InstallShield 2016

InstallShield 11.5 and earlier included the InstallScript MSI Object type of project. This project type is no longer available in InstallShield.

Upgrading InstallScript MSI Object Projects

If you open an InstallScript MSI Object project in InstallShield 2016, InstallShield will convert it to a merge module project.

Predefined InstallScript event handlers are not available in merge module projects that have InstallScript custom actions. Therefore, if you have an InstallShield 11.5 or earlier InstallScript MSI object project that uses InstallScript event handler functions, you must manually schedule custom actions that call these functions when the project is converted to a merge module project in InstallShield 2016. To learn how, see Creating and Scheduling InstallScript Custom Actions that Call InstallScript Event Handlers for Basic MSI Projects.

Note that InstallShield 2016, as well as earlier and later versions of InstallShield, can consume InstallShield 2016 merge modules that have InstallScript custom actions.

Upgrading Projects that Contain InstallScript MSI Objects

Building upgraded projects that contain already-built InstallScript MSI objects (.imm files) will fail; these objects cannot be consumed in InstallShield 2016. If you try to do so, a build error such as the following one occurs:

ISDEV : error -4075: File not found. An error occurred merging Module 'InstallShieldMSIObjectName.4F635B62_07BF_4779_B74E_D80C29D508E3:0' for Feature 'NewFeature1'.

where “InstallShieldMSIObjectName.4F635B62_07BF_4779_B74E_D80C29D508E3:0” is information that is specific to the missing InstallScript MSI object. To resolve this build error, remove this InstallScript MSI object from your project; you can do so by clearing its check box in the Redistributables view.

See Also

Merge Module Projects

Build Errors and Warnings

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