Functional Differences Between InstallShield Premier and professional

For users of InstallShield, it is often unclear what is the difference between InstallShield and InstallShield. Some friends often encounter failure to implement some functions due to the incorrect InstallShield version, now it is more and more necessary to explain it again.

Literally, it seems that the Professional version is more professional. In addition, the premier version market price is almost twice that of the Professional version, so some companies and individuals will not hesitate to select the Professional version. In the past, domestic vendors or customers called the premier version the "Premier version", which further aggravated the misunderstanding of the InstallShield version. Early versions such as InstallShield 6.xand 7.0 have a professional version, which supports two additional language packs for multiple languages. One is the Oriental Language Pack and the other is the Western Language Pack. Later, the Language Pack was removed, and InstallShield with multi-language support was called the premier version.

In fact, when selecting an InstallShield version that suits us, it depends entirely on the actual project requirements. The following are the main differences between the premier version and the Professional version:

The premier version supports 35 languages (the installation package that supports multiple languages must use the premier version), and the professional version only supports one language (the language is determined during installation, other languages are not available in the project ).

1. The number of authorizations for standalone build is different for free. In the latest InstallShield 2011, the premier version can get 5 authorizations, and the professional version can get 1 authorization.
2. The premier version supports InstallShield best practices verification Suite (InstallShield best practices validation suite ).
3. The premier version supports creating a trial installation package.
4. The premier version includes an InstallShield repackagerpackage, which allows you to convert the setup.exe to the MSI format.
5. The premier version can be authorized by five InstallShield collaboration modules.
6. Based on the above functional differences, select the appropriate version of InstallShield.

First, the version has two meanings: edition and version.

InstallShield editions include Premier, professional, and express:

The main difference lies in the difference in functions. Express functions are very limited and are generally not recommended. For the differences between the other two versions, see 《Functional Differences Between InstallShield Premier and professional"

The version is the development version number, and the corresponding relationship is as follows:

InstallShield 2012-ver 18.0

InstallShield 2011-ver 17.0

InstallShield 2010-ver 16.0

InstallShield 2009-ver 15.0

InstallShield 2008-ver 14.0

InstallShield 12-ver 12.0

InstallShield 11.5-ver 11.5

InstallShield 11-ver 11.0

InstallShield 10.5-ver 10.5

InstallShield X-ver 10.0

InstallShield devstudio-ver 9.0

InstallShield developer 8-ver 8.0

InstallShield developer 7-ver 7.0

InstallShield 6.x-common ver 6.2 or 6.3

InstallShield 5.1-ver 5.1

From: http://www.cnblogs.com/installshield/archive/2010/08/26/1809360.html