Advanced Installer

What is Advanced Installer?

Advanced Installer is a powerful and easy-to-use software, Windows Installer creation tool that helps you create MSI installs in minutes.

• Save on development costs
• Increase customer satisfaction
• Reduce support costs

Windows Installer is the "de facto" software installation technology in Windows. Being preinstalled on all Microsoft operating systems, and also along with the most popular productivity packages (Office, etc.), this software installer provides a significant number of power features that improve application management and administration.

This power does not come without traps, and the most important of them all is complexity. Creating an MSI file requires planning and editing dozens of careful database tables.

Hundreds of pages of documentation must be read, numerous lists of rules must be followed. Building a Windows Installer package can take days or even weeks. This is where an MSI creation tool comes to help.

Advanced installer makes MSI creation a snap

The software installer simplifies the windows installer package building process by providing a very easy-to-use, high-level interface for the underlying technology. The program implements all Windows Installer rules and follows all recommended best practices.

With this simple and intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take only a few minutes. Start the program, add some files, change the name, hit the Build button and it's done. No script to learn, there are seminars to attend.

Advanced installer integrates into automated build tools

Advanced Installer project files are stored in XML format. In this way, they can be easily checked in a version control system. The software installer also operates the command line, so you can build your release packages in a fully automated script such as Marca, Ant, or NAnt.

In addition, the most common operations are also implemented as command-line actions, so you can modify your project in an automated way.

Install and register the features of comport your application

Using the intuitive interface of the advanced Installer you can easily add to your package install all the features your software requires:

• Files, folders, and shortcuts (for existing installed files, files, or URLs)
• registry keys and entries
• Environment variables (which can override or be attached to existing variables such as PATH)
• INI file entries
• ODBC controllers, data sources and translators

If you have merge modules for your components, they can also be added to the installation. You can then register these features as needed:

• .NET and Win32 assemblies
• services
• File associations, MIME types

Permissions for files, folders, registry keys, and entries

If an earlier version of your product is found already installed on the target computer, Advanced Installer can update it and ensure that older versions will not be installed on the 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 look for them, then download and install if necessary. This is an easy way to install frameworks such as JRE or .NET, browsers, or databases.

Search for applications, files, folders, registry keys, and INI entries is also provided. Using this, installing additional files, extensions, and plug-ins for existing applications becomes trivial

Advanced installer | - Organize your application into modules and components

Advanced Installer will organize your application into Features and components according to Windows Installer guidelines. In this way, you can take advantage of advanced software installer features like partial installation and repair without having to do anything.

In addition, customizing the organization is easy and intuitive.

Advanced installer | – Insurance and choose presentations from your package

Advanced Installer can leave your software files unpacked, compress them into CAB files (split into multiple volumes as needed), insert them into the MSI file, and add an EXE bootstrapper for backward compatibility.

Digitally signing the generated files will ensure that your customers will never have to question the provenance of your software, the user's record with serial code validation hooks will ensure that only legitimate users start installing 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 power to add whatever you want, wherever you want in your software installer.

Advanced installer | - Customize user interface installation

From silent (standalone) installation, adding dialogs and changing the theme, customizing the installation UI is trivial.

Analytics Installer for real-time package monitoring

Learn how users install, update, or uninstall apps. Track failed installations, where in the world you are most popular, or which version of your app is most used to them.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768