In Visual Studio 2012, after installing Installshield LE 2012, you can include setup projects into your solution, as shown below:
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Adding the Setup project to the solution, and including it into the Release configuration, makes for a quick, 1-click compilation procedure of both the main app and the installer. Still, what if we want to use a Continuous Integration software (e.g. Jenkins and countless others) and run the compilation of the setup from an external app? The ISL file extension used by InstallShield LE does not seem to be directly supported by CI softwares, and using ISCmdBld.exe as specified in Flexera’s docs is not feasible, as that part of Installshield is missing from the LE edition (the L stands for Limited, so no surprises here). However, this specific project type can be compiled within VS IDE, so we can use MSBuild to compile it from the command line. |
