Bulletproof Installs : A Developer's Guide to Install Programs for Windows

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Creating effective install programs is all too often an afterthought in many software projects. This book shows how easy it is to take advantage of the features of InstallShield (the leading installation toolkit from InstallShield Software). The first part of Bulletproof Installs looks at the powerful capabilities of InstallShield 5.1. (A demo of the product is included in the accompanying CD-ROM.) InstallShield can automate every aspect of even complex installations, including "add-on" Microsoft technologies such as DirectX (for games), Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), ActiveX Data Object (ADO), Remote Data Objects (RDO), and object linking and embedding database (OLE-DB). The author shows you how to use the built-in wizards to create basic--and powerful--install programs.

The book goes further, too, with full coverage of InstallShield's very powerful InstallScript programming script language, which supports extensive data types and flow-control statements and several hundred APIs. Other valuable chapters look at operating system issues for installation (and uninstallation), such as the Windows 95 and NT 4 System Registry conventions and other conventions of a "correct" install. The book closes with a how-to on extending and customizing installation scripts. --Richard Dragan

From the Back Cover
The complete guide to InstallShield5, the #1 Windows software distribution development environment!
A quality install program can improve your company's image and dramatically reduce support costs at the same time. Written by Leslie Easter, founder of the world's leading InstallShield training organization, Bulletproof Installs walks you step by step through building Windows-based installation software that works first time, every time. Using InstallShield5, the industry-standard development environment for Windows installers, you'll discover how to:

*Build specifications and flowcharts that streamline development and enhance quality

*Thoroughly evaluate user-computing environments and configure them for optimal application use

*Create Wizard-based dialog boxes that users can easily understand

*Manage configuration files, shared files, locked files, self-registering files and the Registry

*Learn InstallShield's undocumented routines and hidden functionality

Bulletproof Installs covers every aspect of the robust InstallShield5 development environment, including Project, Component, Media Build and Function Wizards; project templates, and the InstallScript scripting language and API. Learn speedy ways to build "standard" install programs, and sophisticated customization techniques using external functions, the Windows API, and support DLLs. Localize your install software for global markets, and more.

*Your installation software will be the first thing your users see. Make sure it's perfect. Get Bulletproof Installs.

About the Author
LESLIE EASTER is founder and instructor for The Orange Brain Company, the world's leading provider of InstallShield5 training. He has led install development training around the world and at many Fortune 500 companies including IBM, Bank of America, Compaq, H-P, Iomega, InstallShield and many others.

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