New Advanced Installer 7.2 brings desktop ActiveSync installers for Windows Mobile applications
On September 8th, 2009 Caphyon Ltd. announced the latest edition of its Windows Installer authoring tool. This is the fifth feature update in this year. Since each Advanced Installer purchase includes 6 months of maintenance (optionally 30 months) you get an average of three free updates.
New and improved features in Advanced Installer 7.2 include:
- Install Windows Mobile applications from the desktop through ActiveSync
- Transforms Wizard to create MST transforms capturing user input during an install or the differences between two Windows Installer MSI databases
- Fast installs through Windows Installer 5.0
- Retrieve WiX imported files from Visual Studio project
- Ability to digitally sign using information from the certificates store
- Ability to customize the installation folder for each feature
- Mixed 32-bit/64-bit package predefined project template
- Visual C++ application predefined project template
- .NET Framework application predefined project template
- Copy/Paste support for dialog editor, launch conditions, Prerequisites, upgrades and searches
- Command line options for: Windows Mobile projects, patch images, adding and removing merge modules in a MSI project, setting merge module signature information, ProductCode
- Windows Powershell 1.0 predefined prerequisite
- Adobe Flash Player 10 predefined prerequisite
- XNA Framework 3.1 predefined prerequisite and launch condition
- SQL Server Express and SQL Server Compact launch conditions
Advanced Installer is licensed on a per developer basis, allowing named users to install the software on up to five machines. It is available in four editions, starting with the Freeware community edition and offering a 30-day trial period for the other editions.
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