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InstallShield's plans for .NET 3.5 redistributable?
Does anyone know about InstallShield's plans for having a .NET 3.5 redistributable once Microsoft has released it? Will there be a patch for InstallShield 2008? Or will there be another full release of InstallShield, say 2008.5?

  • 0_M Urman (Flexera Software)

    We're definitely paying attention to the Orcas release. That said, it's generally fairly easy to create your own prerequisite (or custom InstallScript code) to handle a redistributable like .NET if we haven't released one by the time you want to use it.
  • Michael, thank you for your response.

     

    Will InstallShield 2008 be able to integrate with VS 2008? I have not yet purchased InstallShield 2008, so if you are planning another release to handle the new VS 2008, I would like to know the timeframe before we purchase yet another new version of InstallShield. Your yearly releases do not work well with my company's budget.
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  • Why can't InstallShield folks have it ready the day VS 2008 is ready.

     

    It's a royal pain to have to wait every time.

     

    I pay the uber bucks to InstallShield to have this sort of thing ready and tested so I don't have to. If I have to worry about stuff like this then I might as well go to an Install System where I need to do some things more manually.

     

    Your "added value" gets slimmer and slimmer.
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  • I have attempted to work around the lack of support for .NET Framework 3.5, but I get a message basically stating 2 Windows Installer projects can't run at the same time.

     

    This install was written originally in version 11, and I had to work around it's lack of supporting .NET 2.0.

     

    That same code doesn't work with .NET 3.5. I have to assume the install for .NET 3.5 is build differently that the one built for 2.0. I am referring to the .NET installs from MS.

     

    Are there other installs of the framework out there?
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InstallShield's plans for .NET 3.5 redistributable?