topic Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012? in ArcObjects SDK Questions

Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

AllanMills — Wed, 13 Nov 2013 01:36:53 GMT

I've been asked to check the software I've written for older versions of Arc for 10.2 and specifically using Visual Studio 2012. But for that version they've removed the inbuilt installer project and request you use a third party piece of software like InstallShield LE.

But I'm finding it overly complicated to use given that the developer help for Arc 10.2 makes no mention of it and seems to assume I'm still using VS 2010.

I've used the option to import the old install project into InstallShield but it doesn't work correctly. I get a lot of error messages like:

Error 2 -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriGeoprocessing.olb" ISEXP : error : -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriGeoprocessing.olb"

Error 3 -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriSystem.olb" ISEXP : error : -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriSystem.olb"

Error 4 -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriOutput.olb" ISEXP : error : -6103: Could not find file "C:\FT Projects\Surge\Surge\Surge_Install\esriOutput.olb"

I'm not sure how to fix this assuming I even can given the cut down nature of InstallShield LE.

The project I'm trying to create an installer for is a class library containing geoprocessing tools so I need the DLLs to be registered if nothing else. Has anyone managed to work out how to do this?

Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

GaryBilotta — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 19:44:31 GMT

I am also beginning to look at this and was wondering if you had any luck using install shield.

Thank you.

Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

elioelias — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:09:48 GMT

Any luck with using Install shield LE in VS2012 in place of Visual Studio setup in VS2010? Is the LE functionality enough or you need the professional version? Any example or how-to guide available online?

thanks

Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

BillRose — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:29:49 GMT

This looks promising, but won't be usable until ESRI provides VS 2013 support for the SDK.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d

Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

elioelias — Fri, 09 May 2014 15:53:46 GMT

This looks promising, but won't be usable until ESRI provides VS 2013 support for the SDK.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d

so it looks like I will be using Visual Studio 2010 for my desktop 10.2 projects until ESRI comes up with support for VS2013

Re: Has anyone worked out InstallShield LE for Visual Studio 2012?

RichardWatson — Fri, 09 May 2014 19:35:09 GMT

This looks promising, but won't be usable until ESRI provides VS 2013 support for the SDK.
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/9abe329c-9bba-44a1-be59-0fbf6151054d

I don't think that you need to wait on anything. I use VS 2013 all the time. The key thing that is lost is the various project templates.