Deploying Application using InstallShield Light

In my previous post, I shared with you how to deploy your applications in WPF. Apparently, this does not apply only to WPF but to all applications. Also, this also applies to those using Visual Studio 2010 and below.

When using Visual Studio 2012, most of you (including myself) will be surprised as to why there is no Setup project and that you only have InstallShield available. Sadly, starting with Visual Studio 2012, they will not support the basic Setup project (insert angry comments here). Jason Shuler mentioned in his blog entry when he asked during the TechEd 2012 as to why they removed it. The reply was that "WiX Toolset is the 'future' of setup projects in Visual Studio". You can read some of their replies in these links:

• Bring back the basic setup and deployment project
• Visual Studio setup projects (vdproj) will not ship with future versions of VS (Buck Hodges)
• Microsoft Removes Installer Project Templates from Visual Studio 2012 (Steve Ives)

So, moving forward, I've managed to find the a simple tutorial as to how to use the InstallShield Lite. Below is the video to do it. I hope this will be helpful

Happy coding!!!