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Title: Bulletproof Installs - A Developer's Guide to Install Programs for Windows by Leslie Easter ISBN: 0-13-798091-4 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 21 September, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $44.99

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Average Customer Rating: 3.95 (20 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Great back then, not so great now
Comment: I originally purchased this book to help me with a massive project. Most of my installations required installing my device drivers (data acquisition and motion controller drivers), my own software, and third-party applications (computer vision). As a result, the standard documentation wasn't exactly overly helpful.

This was the best book on the market. At the time, it was the ONLY book on the market. Although it offered a nominal amount of help for me, it did give me a fuller understanding to InstallShield and really helped when I needed to build installers for more standard applications.

Considering at the time this book was originally published, the only other avenue to get IS information was to attend a high dollar seminar, it was a great value.

This book comes with a CDROM with InstallShield 5, DemoShield and some other demoware.

I give it 3 stars, not because it isn't a great book, but because Microsoft redefined how installers should work with the operating system (driver signatures, system directory protection, etc.) and some of the information is now obsolete.

Rating: 2
Summary: An OK book that is out of date.
Comment: This was an OK book in it's time, but it is now completely out of date. This book covers InstallShield 5, which is not supported on Windows ME, Windows 2000, or Windows XP. Both InstallShild 6 and InstallShield Windows Installer Edition are different enought from InstallShield 5 to make this book obsolete.

Rating: 3
Summary: Out of date
Comment: Overall, the book is good. Better than the IS docs anyhow.

Bear in mind that the book is written for Version 5.1 and below.

InstallShield made a major switch to an event-driven installation and script model in Version 6.1 So a lot of the examples are out of date and need to be converted.

I found this confusing as I was trying to learn and port to the new version at the same time.

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