New Advanced Installer 6.5 brings Windows Installer 4.5 support and WiX import
On August 19th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. The new Advanced Installer enables developers and system administrators to easily build and repackage complex applications into reliable, ready to deploy MSI and EXE installers, patches and on-line updates.
The 6.5 version completes the full implementation of Windows Installer
4.5 features. Embed multiple MSIs in a unified setup package and install them chained in a single, atomic transaction.
A new WiX import feature helps you leverage existing installer projects while at the same time giving you access to the numerous Advanced Installer features and capabilities.
Collect user information during install and POST it to your server with the included predefined Custom Action. With just one click specify your software dependencies using one of the newly added prerequisites and launch conditions.
Other improvements in this version:
- Complete Windows Installer 4.5 feature support
- WiX projects import
- .NET Native Image Generation 2.0 support
- .NET Native Image Generation support for assemblies installed in GAC
- User info collection and retrieval custom action
- Support for discrete "INI entry removal" operation
- Windows Installer 4.5 predefined Prerequisites
- SQL Server compact edition predefined prerequisite
- Visual C++ 2005 SP1 redistributable predefined prerequisite
- Visual C++ 2008 redistributable predefined prerequisite
- MS XML Parser predefined prerequisite
- Acrobat Reader 9.0 predefined prerequisite
- Acrobat Reader 9.0 predefined launch condition
- DirectX predefined launch condition
Advanced Installer is available in four editions, starting with the Freeware community edition and offering a 30-day trial period for the other editions.
For more information about Advanced Installer please see:
www.installsite.biz/advancedinstaller.htm
(Text based on a press release from Caphyon Ltd.)