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Powerful and easy to use Windows Installer authoring tool. Install, update and configure your products safely, securely and reliably.
This software 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.
Main Features:
- Advanced Installer makes MSI creation a snap
- Advanced Installer integrates in automated build tools
- Install and register the resources composing your application
- Search, download and install Prerequisites
- Organize your application in modules and components
- Secure and choose your package's presentations
- Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
- Customize the installation User Interface
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 8.6
Advanced Installer is a powerful product packager developed by Caphyon. It stands as an alternative to Wise Installation Studio or other similar products. Using Advanced Installer you can easily create or maintain installation packages such as .exe and .msi. Based on the Windows Installer technology, the program creates reliable installation packages.
To start creating a setup file for your product, choose from a great list of specialized templates, depending on the environment your product was developed in. Advanced Installer comes with a friendly user interface. From the main window of the program, you are allowed to select from installation templates such as .NET Application, Visual Studio Application, Visual Basic Application and many others. The program also offers generic templates including: “Simple”, “Professional”, “Enterprise” and “Architect”.
Advanced Installer is designed with the purpose to easily build installation packages. It follows all the Windows Installer rules and the process of packages installation creation takes a few minutes. The program stores the project files in XML format for easier access. You are also able to automate the package building process using an integrated command line. The user interface enables you to easily add the components and resources your software requires, such as files, folders, registry entries, product information and many others.
When it comes to creating installation packages, an important part of the process is the customization of the installation user interface. Advanced Installer offers you the possibility to modify it in many ways, including theme selection, installation dialog customization, choosing a slideshow image and translating the interface in many languages.
Advanced Installer has all the features to be appreciated by the software packaging engineers. |
- The trial version offers full access to the program features.
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Reviewed by: Margareta Smardan Reviewer rating: Reviewed: 2 months ago
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What's new in version 8.8
The 8.8 release brings full support for VMware ThinApp. Together with the existing App-V support, Advanced Installer is ready to fulfill all your Application Virtualization needs.
The powerful Prerequisites support is being redesigned for simpler, more intuitive operation. The single-click, ready-to-use Predefined Prerequisites can be selected and scheduled at any time during install to make the installation of frameworks, runtimes and 3rd party tools easier than ever before.
A newly developed internal Digital Signature Tool removes the requirement of using external digitally sign tools, making your installer creation even simpler.
New features:
- ThinApp Virtualization support
- Internal Digital Signature Tool
- Single-click predefined prerequisites
- Unified Prerequisites view includes: pre&post-install, chained and feature-based
- UltiDev Web Server predefined prerequisite
Enhancements to existing features:
- Resume installation after a reboot triggered by a feature-based prerequisite
- Progress dialog when the bootstrapper prepares large packages
- Dialog sharing for multiple chains by using Add Dialog feature
- System store certificate browsing for digital signature
- Improved reference detection when deleting a folder used by a file
- License file browsing when registering Advanced Installer by email
- Moved Product IDs information in Product Details page
- Added a valid default URL in launch application page for Tomcat project wizard
- Automatically trim spaces for service account information
- Added display language selection dialog option in new project wizard
- File extension Default Program restoration during uninstall
Bug fixes
- Crash when disabling the updater in projects created with Advanced Installer 7.0.1 or older
- Internet connection predefined launch condition did not work in EXE bootstrapper
- Error when using a duplicate name in Windows Mobile folder picker
- Error when replacing a pseudo-formatted ProgId name with its resolved value
- Error when creating a new project with Visual Studio
- Shortcut name was not updated when modified through Edit Shortcut dialog
- "Synchronize value with the assembly file" option did not work
- Spring theme was not resized correctly on systems with custom DPI settings
- Volume Cost List control displayed negative values in enhanced UI
- Feature-based prerequisites ignored custom download folders
- /loadpathvars command line option did not work
- /help command line option did not work correctly
- Table Editor was not refreshed correctly when switching from a MAC OS X build to a MSI build
- Build output path was not set correctly when duplicating a build
- Copy/Paste did not work correctly for builds
- ExitDialog was shown instead of FatalError dialog when a chained installation failed
- Software Identification files and folders allowed rename and move operations
- Software Identification folder was not removed when disabling the option
- Software Identification XML name was not set correctly when using formatted values in the Identifier field
- Environment variable install behavior was not loaded correctly when editing PATH variable
- EXE updates used an incorrect default detection criteria
- Service control operation was not updated correctly when renaming its component
- Custom launch condition list was not updated when importing an MSI
- No component was selected by default in Uninstall Cleanup wizard
- Installation\Product Information\Product Details menu did not work
- Build time was not calculated correctly for Patch projects What's new in version 8.4
New features in this release:
- User Interface refresh for a modern, Windows 7 look and feel;
- SharePoint feature editor;
- Any CPU (32/64-bit) support for Java Launcher;
- Generate multiple instances GUID command line option.
Enhancements to existing features:
- Vital custom action information can no longer be modified for predefined actions;
- Added filter in property picker;
- Chained package command line support for maintenance;
- Automatically detect Product Version when adding an update;
- Added support for selecting a specific instance for multiple instance packages;
- Automatically use active Internet connection launch condition when using server-side serial number validation.
Bug fixes:
- Some command line interface errors used message boxes;
- Software launch conditions were not refreshed when use the launch condition wizard;
- Prerequisite feature was not removed when deleting a repository prerequisite;
- Office 2007 launch conditions were not evaluated correctly for Office 2010 x64;
- Extended searches were renamed when opening the project;
- File association target component was removed when deleting extension;
- Disable Repair option was ignored when overriding Windows Installer programs list entry;
- Launch application finish action did not support Unicode paths;
- Custom action condition was reset when shared between sequences;
- Old version language was not applied correctly when upgrading multilingual packages;
- Incorrect line endings were set for comment sections in imported XML files;
- Enhanced UI control conditions were not checked when editing a combo box. |
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