InstallShield 2012 Spring Professional Edition

A Powerful and Easy-to-Use Windows Installation Solution

InstallShield Professional Edition is a powerful and easy-to-use solution for building Windows installations. It is ideal for both novice and seasoned software installation developers. While most homegrown Windows installation tools are not optimized for current industry standards, InstallShield Professional lets you take advantage of all the latest technologies.

Although missing many of the features of the top-tiered InstallShield Premier Edition, InstallShield Professional Edition does have all the functionality of the InstallShield Express Edition, plus the following:

  • Create a better run-time experience—Entirely new end-user interface with redesigned built-in wizard pages and a new, advanced wizard page editor create a better run-time experience.
  • Support hybrid cloud deployments—SQL Azure database scripting capabilities enable hybrid cloud SQL deployments.
  • Provide deployment metadata—Microsoft® System Center 2012 Configuration Manager support enables software producers to provide required deployment metadata to their Enterprise customers, reducing the burden in managing their application.
  • Ensure users always have latest version of your application installed—Automatically checks for the latest updates and patches at installer runtime, and if an update is found, it will automatically be downloaded and run in place of the old installer.
  • Streamline installation scripting—PowerShell Support offers software producers the ability to streamline installation scripting requirements and support best practices of their Enterprise customers.
  • Advanced support for key technologies—Includes prerequisites that install Internet Explorer 9, SQL Server 2008 R2 Native Client, Windows Identity Foundation .NET Framework 4.5, SQL Server 2012 Express, SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB, and JRE SE 1.7, and more.
  • Maintain a clean build system—Each license of InstallShield Professional Edition includes one free Standalone Build license.
  • Reduce development time—Quickly and easily build your installations by moving pieces of an existing project (dialogs, custom actions, or features) to another installation project; create and manage re-usable project outlines so you don’t have to start your installations from scratch.
  • Easily customize your installations—Modify the layout of existing end-user dialogs; manage multiple product versions, allowing specific features to be included in a release via user-defined flags; and much more.
  • Build installations for 64-bit installations—Create reliable installations for both 32-bit and 64-bit applications in one installation project.
  • Better control your installations with InstallScript—Add InstallScript custom actions to your MSI projects or create InstallScript projects that control your entire installation.
  • Validate your installations for Windows 7—Ensure your software installs and runs reliably on Windows 7.

InstallShield Professional Edition is available as a node-locked or concurrent license. You can also optionally purchase the Virtualization Pack with the Professional Edition to support building Microsoft App-V virtual packages.

Download the trial version of InstallShield 2012 Spring Professional Edition with Virtualization Pack.

Download the InstallShield 2012 Spring Edition datasheet