InstallShield: Project Design To Target Both 32-Bit and 64-Bit Systems

How to: Approaches to support both 32-bit and 64-bit installations within one InstallShield project.

Ideas:

Go through these topics in InstallShield help manual first to understand the concept of Release Flags and how to use it along with Features Design, Template Summary Property and Conditional Launching.

1. Targeting 64-Bit Operating Systems with Basic MSI and InstallScript MSI Installations :http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield19helplib/helplibrary/Targeting64Bit-MSI.htm
2. Targeting 64-Bit Operating Systems:http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield19helplib/helplibrary/IHelp64BitSupport.htm#Introduction_3539228780_1027766
3. Using the Template Summary Property:http://helpnet.installshield.com/installshield16helplib/IHelpTemplateSummary.htm
4. Conditionally Launching Custom Actions Based on Release Flags:http://helpnet.installshield.com/installshield16helplib/IHelpCustomActionsReleaseFlags.htm
5. Preprocessor Directives:http://helpnet.flexerasoftware.com/installshield18helplib/mergedProjects/installshield18langref/LangrefPreprocessor_directives.htm

Project: Home entertainment and communication convergence

Discussion: Possibilities and Benefits

Scope: This writing is mostly for markets in North America. More than 90% of evidences were collected inside Canada-Ontario and the rest from U.S.

Authorship:

• This document was prepared by Nhung Nguyen under the guidance of Tony Carter, Centennial College School of Business.
• The case study was developed to get a full perspective of home entertainments now and next few years. We do independent studies without any sponsor from the mentioned companies. All the theories we pointed out are not from recognized data statistics. They’re showing our own analysis and opinions instead.
• Nhung is a graduate of the Universities of Natural Sciences, Ho Chi Minh City , Vietnam and has worked in Canada as a software developer and product manager.
•  You’re not allowed to re-post the content anywhere without the acknowledgement of Tony Carter and Nhung Nguyen.
• Any questions about the post, please kindly leave comments.

Research In Motion Inc. Timeline

This is  a part of the project was done in July 2011. Until now (Nov 2011), RIM and Apple have been releasing some other new products. The history timeline and product comparisons should be updated. Since our time slot working on this project for this year was ended, we may consider updating them next year.

Research In Motion Inc. Timeline on Prezi

Using Consultants Effectively

This is  a part of the project was done in April 2011. We were trying to spot out where the key points to use consultants successfully, at both sides: consultants and companies.

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