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Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:20 PM

Acresso released AdminStudio 9 and announced end of life for AdminStudio 7.x

On August 29, 2008 Acresso released version 9.0 of AdminStudio Enterprise, Professional and Standard editions. AdminStudio 9 Release Notes (PDF) Webinar: What's New in AdminStudio 9.0 and Workflow Manager 5.0 Registration required. WARNING: Anyone...
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:00 AM

InstallShield 2009 Express available

On August 27, 2008 Acresso released version 2009 of InstallShield Express, completing the InstallShield 2009 product family: Premier, Professional and Express. New features in this version include: Setup Prerequisites based on feature selection Visual...
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Monday, August 25, 2008 8:50 PM

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...
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Friday, August 15, 2008 3:19 PM

Clean install taken literal, or how to solve error 1335

Error code 1335 means: "The cabinet file '[2]' required for this installation is corrupt and cannot be used. This could indicate a network error, an error reading from the CD-ROM, or a problem with this package." Software maker Encore...
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Saturday, August 09, 2008 2:45 PM

Pantaray adds MSI support to QSetup, releases free SuperOrca MSI editor

The QSetup family of products from Pantaray Research Ltd. used to produce setup programs for Windows using proprietary technology for many years. With the release of QSetup 9.0 Panatray recently added the ability to create setup files in the form of an...
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Friday, August 01, 2008 12:38 PM

Deploying VSTO Office Add-Ins with Windows Installer

If you are creating Office add-ins you may find this two-part MSDN article useful. It describes how to install add-ins created with Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) using Windows Installer. The article uses Visual Studio to create the MSI. Deploying...
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Saturday, July 26, 2008 10:08 PM

Windows Installer Version Matrix

This table shows released Windows Installer versions that are included or available as redistributables for the different versions of Windows. Pre-release or beta versions are not listed. The data have been collected from various sources. If you find...
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Friday, July 25, 2008 12:51 PM

LINQ to MSI

LINQ stands for Language-Integrated Query and enables you to directly query databases in .NET programming languages. In a series of blog posts Bart De Smet is writing a query provider to use LINQ for MSI databases. He emphasizes that it's a sample...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 10:27 AM

WinINSTALL acquired by Scalable Software

Scalable Software Limited, a leader in IT Asset Lifecycle Management solutions, announced on June 30, 2008 that it has completed the acquisition of the WinINSTALL® Desktop Management business from Attachmate of Seattle, Wash. Terms of the deal were not...
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Friday, June 27, 2008 6:41 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.4 brings support for transactions in SQL scripts and 64-bit Java

On June 16th, 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...
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Saturday, June 21, 2008 10:52 AM

Service Pack 1 for InstallShield 2009 available [Update]

Only two weeks after the inital release of InstallShield 2009 Acresso published a service pack. The main purpose of SP1 is to add support for the release version of Windows Installer 4.5. The inital release only supported MSI 4.5 Beta 2. SP1 also fixes...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:46 PM

ScriptLogic released MSI Studio for SCCM, supporting WiX format

One more TechEd announcement (actually it's already 10 days old but I haven't had the chance to post it yet): On June 10, 2008 ScriptLogic® Corporation, a leading provider of systems lifecycle management solutions for Microsoft® Windows®-based...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 11:33 AM

InstEd 1.5.2.3 released

InstEd is a freeware MSI editor, formerly known as appEditor. The new release adds back/forward navigation, huge performance improvements, Windows Installer 4.5 support and several other enhancements and fixes. InstEd 1.5.2.3 release notes InstEd download
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Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:30 PM

InstallShield 2009 released

Here's another TechEd announcement: InstallShield 2009 is available InstallShield 2009 - which is internally version 15.0 - is the first InstallShield release under the new company name Acresso. New features in this version include: Managed Code Custom...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:02 AM

MSI 4.5 Released

[updated 2008-06-04 with additional links] Today TechEd North America started, and many companies use TechEd to announce new products and releases. So here's the first announcement that caught my attention: Windows Installer 4.5 has been released...
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008 10:10 AM

appEditor is now InstEd, and Installer2Go has a new owner

News about two freeware/shareware tools for creating Windows Installer setups. appEditor is a Windows Installer authoring tool from Camwood Ltd. Recently the original author has resumed the rights to appEditor and published an improved version under the...
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008 6:33 PM

New Advanced Installer 6.3 brings Vista Games Explorer integration and Visual Studio Setup projects import

On May 9th, 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...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 9:56 AM

Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer

Found a nice blog article by Susan Gorman that introduces Windows Installer and InstallShield's role: Basic Introduction to InstallShield and Windows Installer
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 2:41 PM

Upgrade offer for old InstallShield and AdminStudio versions

There's currently a special offer that allows owners of InstallShield and AdminStudio to upgrade to the current version at a reduced price. InstallShield versions older than 11.0 and AdminStudio versions older than 7.0 are no longer entitled to regular...
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Friday, April 18, 2008 3:57 AM

Meeting with the Windows Installer Team

Yesterday, as part of the Microsoft MVP Global Summit , I was sitting down with the Windows Installer team: Tyler Robinson (PM), Hemchander "Hem" Sannidhanam, Mark Rovetta (doc writer), and Carolyn Napier (dev lead). We had some great discussions...
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