File Extensions Tab

InstallShield 2014 Express Edition » Options Dialog Box

The File Extensions tab on the Options dialog box is where you specify preferences for Portable Executable (PE) files. InstallShield refers to this list of PE files when it creates components for your project. (A component is the smallest installable part of a product. The Express edition of InstallShield creates components for you automatically. For more information, see Installation Fundamentals.) For example:

When you add a PE file to a folder in the Destination computer’s folders pane in the Files view, InstallShield creates a new component for it and sets it as the component’s key file.
When you use the best practice method for creating dynamic file links, InstallShield creates at build time a separate component for each PE file in the dynamically linked folder. Each PE file is the key file of its component. To learn more about best practice dynamic file linking, see Determining the Appropriate Component Creation Method for Dynamically Linked Files.

The following setting is available on this tab:

File Extensions Tab Settings

Setting

Description

Portable Executable File Extensions

In this box, type the file extensions that you would like InstallShield to consider to be PE files. Separate extensions with a comma. The default entry for this box is the following:
AX,EXE,DLL,OCX,VXD,CHM,HLP,TLB

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