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1. Why can't I INSTALLSHIELD in Visual C 6.0?
2, which location of the installer in the INSTALLSHIELD in the Visual Studio disc?
3, what functions have INSTALLSHIELD FOR VISUAL C 6.0?
4, INSTALLSHIELD FOR VISUAL C 6.0 Why can't you create a self-release EXE installation package? Why not.......
A brief introduction to INSTALLSHIELD FOR VISUAL C 6.0 is organized for the above issues so that those who first read installshield are not going too much.
InstallShield for Microsoft Visual C 6 (The VC version of InstallShield) is released with Microsoft Visual Studio 98, which is located in the Visual Studio6.0 installation disk, although it is a free version, but its function is still more than other The installation tool software is slightly better because it is the subset of InstallShield Professional 5.1, with the basic function of InstallShield and the same integrated development environment; and surprisingly, installshield's scripting language installscript makes users like other advanced languages That flexibly constructs its own installation script. But it has many different installshield5.5 for installshield5.5, mainly in the following aspects. 1. Development Environment (1) The VC version cannot create a 16-bit Windows system installer. (2) The VC version cannot create a self-release EXE installation package. (3) The component created by the VC version cannot exceed 5, and the subcomponents cannot be created, and the professional version is not limited. (4) The VC version has no component wizard. (5) The file group created by the VC version cannot exceed 8, and the professional version is not limited. (6) The file compression method used by the VC version is the same as INSTALLSHIELD 3.0. (7) The VC version does not allow the DLL function to be defined. (8) VC version In the created installer, the startup message dialog cannot be changed or hidden. (9) The VC version does not report the results of the media creation. (10) The VC version cannot change the bitmap on the left side of the user dialog. 2. Installscrip function NSTALLSHIELD's script language has some restrictions on function functions, as shown in Table 1.