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Asked: 2026-05-22T19:03:22+00:00

Is Microsoft discontinuing the Visual Studio Installer or not? Somewhere I remember reading that

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Is Microsoft discontinuing the “Visual Studio Installer” or not? Somewhere I remember reading that they were, in favor of going with InstallShield LE. But I can’t find this on MS’s site anywhere. Does anyone else have any info on this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, this seems to be the case. Check the announcement at the top of the MSDN forum.

    With InstallShield available, the
    Visual Studio Installer project types
    will not be available in future
    versions of Visual Studio. To preserve
    existing customer investments in
    Visual Studio Installer projects,
    Microsoft will continue to support the
    Visual Studio Installer projects
    feature that shipped with Visual
    Studio 2010 and below as per our
    product life-cycle strategy. For more
    information, see Expanded Microsoft
    Support Lifecycle Policy for Business
    & Development Products.

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