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How to make MSI with Visual Studio 2012 and Installshield LE

I was provided with a Visual Studio solution made by someone else. It has an installer project using Installshield LE. The installer builds fine, but it does exe, and I have to do msi. I know that the guy who wrote the project will generate msi files, but I just don't see any options for this. Is this possible with LE?

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Go to step 6 and go to the Single Image type. Set “Compression” on the “Design” tab to “Yes” and set “Start installation” on the setup.exe tab to “No”. Create this release.

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Thanks for the help guys. These tips sorted my problem.

After so many releases released in the 1990s, it’s amazing that InstallShield finally set itself the goal of making their integration with Visual Studio so friendly ... but hiding this vital option.

I am adding a screenshot to help other users.

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I solved this using the following

  • Using SingleImage as an Assembly Type

  • Sub-Setup.exe Tab (Build | Setup.exe | Signing)

  • Select Setup Launcher = None.

The assembly from InstallShield will be displayed as a .MSI file in

(\ RELEASE_PROJECT \ Express \ SingleImage \ disk images \ DISK1)

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