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Working with InstallShield Prerequisites that Are Included in Projects

InstallShield 2013 Express Edition

An InstallShield prerequisite is an installation for a product or technology framework that is required by your product. Some examples of InstallShield prerequisites that are included with InstallShield are Java Runtime Environment (JRE) and SQL Server Express Edition. You can add any of the existing InstallShield prerequisites to your installation projects.

Edition: InstallShield Premier Edition and InstallShield Professional Edition include the InstallShield Prerequisite Editor, a tool that enables you to define custom InstallShield prerequisites and to edit settings for any existing InstallShield prerequisites.

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.

The Redistributables view is where you add InstallShield prerequisites to Express projects.

See Also

Adding InstallShield Prerequisites, Merge Modules, and Objects to Projects

Specifying the Installation Order of InstallShield Prerequisites

Specifying the Run-Time Location for InstallShield Prerequisites at the Release Level

Specifying a Run-Time Location for a Specific InstallShield Prerequisite