How to use InstallShield8.0 to make your own installer

Summary

This document will show you how to use the InstallShield development platform to create, compile, and run a setup program. In this document you will learn the following things you'll encounter during installation: Loading installation files, setting up shortcuts, modifying the registry, installing some files, registering COM components, replacing the installation interface, debugging, and releasing the installer.

This document is mainly divided into the following 6 sections:

Create, compile, test installation works

Setting shortcuts and modifying the registry

Registering COM components

Conditions and Properties

To modify the installer using a script

Modify the Installation Interface

Let's go step-by-step with me to learn how to make an installer

1, create, compile, test the installation of the project

This section mainly describes how to quickly create a setup project.

1.1 To create an installed project

First look at the InstallShield8.0 Development console interface, familiar with the development environment.

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