Advanced Installer Portable is a Windows Installer authoring tool that makes it easy for developers and system administrators to create reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer is a convenient tool for administrators and developers to create trustworthy MSI packages. Windows Installer is evolving into the “de facto” software installation technology for Windows. Preinstalled on the latest Microsoft operating systems and bundled with the most popular productivity packages (such as Office), this software installer offers many powerful features that improve application management.
This power comes with its pitfalls, and most importantly, complexity. Creating an MSI file requires careful planning and manipulation of dozens of database tables. Hundreds of pages of documentation to read and countless lists of rules to follow. Creating a Windows Installer package can take days or weeks. This is where MSI build tools come to the rescue.
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
Advanced Installer Portable makes MSI creation a snap
Our 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.
With this simple, intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take just a few minutes. Start the program, add a few files, change the name, hit the Build button and you are done. No scripts to learn, no seminars to attend.
App-V ∙ AppX – the future of applications packaging is here
The Windows 10 platform has brought .AppX and .AppV packages in front of everybody. Together with Microsoft our team is offering full support for packaging UWP applications (as .AppX packages) and virtual applications (as .AppV packages), providing you with extended functionality, which cannot be found in any of the free tools available at this moment.
Advanced Installer Portable integrates in automated build tools
The Advanced Installer project files are stored in XML format. This way, they can be easily checked into a version control system. The software installer also operates at command line, so you can build your release packages in a completely automated script, like Make, Ant or NAnt.
Furthermore, the most common operations are also implemented as command line actions, so you can modify your project in an automated fashion.
Install and register the resources composing your application
Using Advanced Installer’s intuitive interface you can easily add to your install package all the resources your software requires:
- Files, Folders and Shortcuts (to installed files, existing files or URLs)
- Registry keys and entries
- Environment Variables (which can replace or be appended to existing variables like PATH)
- INI file entries
- ODBC drivers, data sources and translators
If you have merge modules for your components, they can be also added to the installation. Next you can register these resources as necessary:
- .NET and Win32 assemblies
- Services
- File Associations, MIME types
- Permissions for files, folders, registry keys and entries
If a previous version of your product is found already installed on the target computer, Advanced Installer can upgrade it and ensure that older versions will not be installed over newer ones.
Search, download and install Prerequisites
If your application needs some other software to be installed in order to run, you can easily specify them as Prerequisites. Advanced Installer will search for them, then download and install as necessary. This is an easy way to install frameworks like JRE or .NET, browsers or database engines.
Searching for applications, files, folders, registry keys and INI entries is also provided. Using this, installing additional files, extensions and plug-ins to existing applications becomes trivial.
Organize your application in modules and components
Advanced Installer will organize your application in Features and Components as per Windows Installer guidelines. This way you can take advantage of advanced software installer features like partial install and repair without having to do anything.
Further customizing the organization is easy and intuitive.
Secure and choose your package’s presentations
Advanced Installer Portable can leave your software’s files unpacked, compress them into CAB files (split in multiple volumes as needed), insert them into the MSI file and add a EXE bootstrapper for backwards compatibility.
Digitally signing the generated files will ensure that your customers will never have to question the provenience of your software, and the user registration with serial code validation hooks will ensure that only legitimate users get to install your software.
Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
Packed as native EXEs, DLLs or script files written in C, C++, VBS or JS, Custom Actions give you the full power to add anything you want, anywhere you want to your software installer.
Customize the installation User Interface
From silent (unattended) installation, to adding dialogs and changing the theme, customizing the Installer UI is trivial.
Installer Analytics for package monitoring in real time
Learn how your users install, upgrade or uninstall your applications. Track failed installations, where on the globe you are most popular or which version of your application is them most used one.
What’s NEW:
- New App Installer theme
- MSIX Context Menu – automatically synced with your File Associations options
- Command line support to edit a shortcut and add the “Pin to taskbar” option for the “/NewShortcut” command
- Improved desktop shortcut support for MSIX
- Improved the way we handle synced folder updates at build time – only synced folders that are part of scheduled builds will be updated
- Support to changing the logo for the Serene theme in the “Themes” view
- Option to provision MSIX for all users in “Install MSIX/APPX Package” custom action
- Optimized interdependency behavior of Windows Flags from the Close Application custom action
- Improved the “File replace” message when the changes are saved in an MST file
- The IIS settings are not removed during the package uninstallation if a web application is added under a Virtual Directory
- Issue with multiple instances: If EUI is enabled, MaintenanceDlg appears whenever a second instance is updated
- Misleading error message when trying to modify a project without write permission
- Advanced Installer freezes when the “Search Files” field is cleared
- When trying to sync a folder in the project to a symbolic link on the desktop, the original folder will be selected by default rather than the latest folder
- “Created content” field is always set to an old date in the “Details” tab of an MSI package
- IIS view copy-paste support is broken
- “Run in Docker” and “Run in VM” buttons in the “Builds” view are enabled even though no container or virtual machine is configured for running
- Installer dialog font changes when a hyperlink is placed on a spawned dialog (EUI)
- The preview theme does not display the correct themes during wizard creation
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