Advanced Installer 10.0

Advanced Installer is a very popular Windows Installer authoring tool. With its novice-friendly Graphical User Interface, every user can easily and fast create and maintain their own installation packages that can be compiled into EXE, MSI and other containers.

Advanced Installer is based on all the best known practices of creating Windows Installer packages, and it provides easy to use steps for their creation. Skillfully crafted interface provides easy access to all of its important functions, both for first time users and for professionals.

Creating your installer package can be done in just few minutes. By following few simple steps, you can define what files you want to use, enter information about installation process and by simply hitting Build button your package will be ready to use.

Advanced Installer Features:

Save on training costs
User friendly, completely GUI driven, with no scripts to learn, no databases to edit and no XML to write

Save time to market
Develop with wizards, import existing IDE projects, integrate into automated build tools and source control systems.

Save on development costs
Hundreds of powerful features ready to use with just a few mouse clicks. Tons of functionality configurable for your installers.

Reduce your support costs
Fewer number of incidents due to improper installers. Enjoy reliable installers crafted with obsessive attention to detail.

Save on additional tool purchases
Included updater, launcher, bootstrapper, trialware, serial validation, dialog editor, additional languages and countless others.

Increase customer satisfaction
Robust installers based on standard Windows Installer technology offering rollbacks, patches, autoupdates, etc.

Save on consulting
Advanced Installer's fanatical support team stands ready to help you with any installer questions you may have.

Save on migration tools
Leverage existing investments. Repackage older installers, import MSIs, WiX projects. Use open formats, avoid proprietary traps.

Title: Advanced Installer 10.0
Filename: advinst.msi
File size: 50.09 MB
Requirements: Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 7 64
Languages: en-US
License: Freeware
Date added: March 21, 2013
Author: Caphyon Ltd
www.caphyon.com
Homepage: www.advancedinstaller.com

Change Log:

New features in this release:
- Support for AppV 5.0
- IIS WebSite ISAPI Filters and Restrictions
- Allow "Visual Studio Application" import to create imported files per configuration/build
- Customizable Summary Information for MSI
- New 64-bit LZMA encoder for handling larger archives with high compression ratios

Enhancements to existing features:
- Change/Move Repository Manager location was improved
- Added mouse hourglass cursor during "PrepareDlg" and "ProgressDlg"
- Import Control Panel Icon when importing an MSI
- Import Files Association Icon Index when importing an MSI
- Build process was improved
- Allowed "Fast installation" option for Windows Installer 4.5
- Created VB.NET sample for integrating the updater

Bug fixes:
- "advinst.exe" return code was 0 even if the build failed, breaking automated build scenarios
- Project was not saved when pressing build and then closing Advanced Installer
- "Run and log" for patch project failed
- "Per-machine if administrator, per-user otherwise" install location was not resolved when original location wasn't used
- Install conditions for "VSTO 2010 Runtime (x64)" were inefficient on some Windows 7 x64 machines
- Launch condition for Windows Server 2008 x86 was incorrect
- Adobe Reader X (and lower versions) predefined launch condition didn't check for version XI
- Transform Wizard didn't capture properties changes performed on "ExitDialog"
- Software Identification Tag was not updated when the product version was changed from the command line
- The Bootstrapper didn't correctly display the names of RTL languages in the language selection dialog
- Packages with both "Install new version first and then uninstall old version" option enabled and file removal operations failed on Windows Server 2008
- IIS installation crashed when specific HTTPS Binding IP was used
- Error when copying IIS Web Application from one Advanced Installer instance to another
- AppPool copy-paste was broken in IIS View
- Predefined published events threw error when trying to edit the "Condition" text field
- "Deleting extraction files" message was not localized for Enhanced UI installations
- The prerequisites order on the PrerequisitesDlg didn't correspond with the order from Prerequisites Page
- "Run" button from ribbon was activated when launching the new project wizard
- The ribbon was minimized when using a project from the recent list
- Symbolic links were not correctly handled when parsing file/folder paths
- Custom actions view crashed when "Update Features Install States" custom action was automatically removed
- The uninstall command line option didn't work when the "Enhanced User Interface" was enabled
- Spring theme did not change the frame color
- Fixed Smart Condition Edit control display problem
- UserRegistrationDlg ignored the missing separators inside a serial number
- File could not be registered using "Extract registration info from native library option"
- Switching between VMware Workstation and Player triggered a failure when starting VM repackaging
- Running repackager in VM two times consecutively failed with malformed command line
- Error occurred when setting folder permissions
- Could not open projects referring AiSkipExitDlg property as a control event