Advanced Installer description
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Create your own program installer fast and easy
Advanced Installer is a Windows Installer authoring tool. It offers a friendly and easy to use Graphical User Interface for creating and maintaining installation packages (EXE, MSI, etc.) based on the Windows Installer technology.
Advanced Installer simplifies the process of building Windows Installer packages by providing a very easy to use, high level interface to the underlying technology. The program implements all the Windows Installer rules and follows all the advised best practices.
With this simple, intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take just a few minutes. You just have to follow a few simple steps, hit the Build button and your installer is ready to use. Here are some key features of "Advanced Installer":
MSI:
· Create valid MSI setups for your applications respecting all written and unwritten Windows Installer rules
UAC:
· Build installers that run flawlessly on Windows 7/Vista supporting their security model
Upgrades:
· Detect and upgrade older version of your product installed on the user's machine. Prevent installs over newer ones
Side-by-Side:
· Create packages for different versions of your application that can be installed simultaneously and run side by side
Imports:
· Import from Visual Studio, InstallShield LE, WiX, Eclipse, Inno Setup, NSIS and regular MSI/MSM packages
Fonts:
· Register fonts in the Windows OS. Specify registration names for non-TrueType fonts
Environment Variables:
· Create, append or prepend user or system environment variables
Autoregister:
· Auto registration, for files that support it, can be scheduled at install time
Files and Folders:
· Install and uninstall files and folders. Set attributes, create shortcuts
Registry:
· Install and uninstall registry keys and entries
64-bit:
· Build setups that run and install on 32-bit processors or on the latest 64-bit Intel and AMD CPUs
Template projects:
· Create templates based on your current project and ready-to-use for your future projects
Add/Remove:
· Customize your application's listing in the "Add/Remove Programs" page of Control Panel
XML projects:
· They can be easily checked into a version control system and shared between multiple developers
Command Line:
· Build your release packages in completely automated scripts, like Make, Ant or NAnt
Run&Log:
· Launch your MSI package while pretty printing the full Windows Installer log
Launch Conditions:
· Visually specify conditions necessary (applications, frameworks, etc.) for your package to run
Smart Formatted Editing:
· Editing (MSI)Formatted fields offers reference auto-completion, syntax and error highlights and resolved value hints
Per-User/Per-machine:
· Create installers that can be install as required: per-user or per-machine if the user is Administrator
Include Merge Modules:
· Include frameworks, libraries and other prepackaged dependencies into your installers with just a few mouse clicks
Requirements:
· Pentium 4 class CPU
· 512 MB RAM
· 1024x768 screen resolution
· 256 MB hard drive space
· Windows Installer 2.0
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
New features in this release:
· Pre-flight checks for project source files
· Single-dialog installers
· Custom check box control in enhanced user interface
· Predefined properties for localized user accounts and groups
· Determine free disk space predefined custom action
· Redesigned Updater view
· Enhancements to existing features
· Automatic update selection based on target platform (32/64-bit)
· Added project navigation menu in ribbon
· Simplified user interface for selecting digital signing certificates from store
· Support different targets for prerequisite maintenance and uninstall
· Unified the extraction and download folders for all prerequisites
· Added an option for keeping extracted files for feature-based prerequisites
· Added default command line for the updater
· Support different application names for updater auto-restart
· Improved file detection for Visual Basic 6 application import
· Formatted values support for folder sharing
· Added support for configuring LZMA compression method
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