Configuring a Release that Includes InstallShield Prerequisites
When you package an installation that includes InstallShield prerequisites, you can use any one of the following methods for supplying the InstallShield prerequisite files to end users:
| • | Store the InstallShield prerequisite files on the source media. |
| • | Compress the InstallShield prerequisite files into Setup.exe, to be extracted at run time, as needed. |
| • | If necessary, your installation can download the InstallShield prerequisite files that are included in your project from the URL that is specified in the InstallShield prerequisite file (.prq) for each prerequisite. |
You can specify different methods for each InstallShield prerequisite in your project. To learn more, see Specifying a Run-Time Location for a Specific InstallShield Prerequisite.
You can also override individual methods at the release level if you want all of the InstallShield prerequisites in a release to be available through the same method. For more information, see Specifying the Run-Time Location for InstallShield Prerequisites at the Release Level.
Edition:InstallShield Premier and InstallShield enable you to configure an InstallShield prerequisite so that it is installed either before or after any installation of the Windows Installer engine and the .NET Framework.