Differences Between InstallShield Editor and InstallShield Professional and Premier Editions

AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 | InstallShield Editor

Edition:InstallShield Professional is included with AdminStudio Professional Editions. InstallShield Premier is included with AdminStudio Enterprise Edition.

The InstallShield Editor that is included with AdminStudio 2023 | 25.0 is based upon InstallShield Professional and Premier Editions, but it has a slightly different feature set. Those differences are explained here.

Default Project Types

In InstallShield Editor, all non-Windows Installer-based project types are disabled by default. You can enable these additional project types, such as InstallScript, on the InstallShield Editor Options dialog box, which is opened by clicking Options on the Tools menu.

Multilingual Runtime Language Support

InstallShield Editor includes InstallShield Premier Edition’s multilingual runtime language support, which enables you to create a single installation that displays end-user text in multiple languages. If an installation will contain more than one language, you can specify whether to prompt the end user to select the run-time language, or to automatically display the language of the target system’s operating system.

Using a Network Repository to Share Project Elements

A repository is a collection of common elements that can be shared and reused in different installation projects, enabling you to ensure consistency. InstallShield Editor includes not only InstallShield Professional Edition’s local repository support, but also InstallShield Premier Edition’s network repository support, which fosters collaboration among installation authors.