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Advanced Installer Professional v2.6 Released

awebrank   on 20 April 2005 - 07:52 · 7 comments & 841 views

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Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Installer Professional 2.6, a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help. It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. If additional capabilities are needed, they are available at some of the lowest prices in the industry.

Download: Advanced Installer Professional v2.6
View: Advanced Installer Home


What's new in Advanced Installer 2.6

This new version adds support for creating Windows Installer patches (MSP files), computing file hashes, conditional levels for features and more.

- Authoring Windows Installer patches (MSP files).
- Computing file hashes.
- Conditional levels for features.
- Support JVM type: server/client.
- Folder ordering.
- Support for continuing prerequisites install after a reboot.
- Ordering prerequsites.
- Bug fixes.

Advanced Installer Professional costs USD $149.

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#1 smashguy on 20 Apr 2005 - 08:59
Nice!
(3 replies) #2 Spitfire_x86 on 20 Apr 2005 - 10:42
Use InnoSetup or NSIS and ignore everything else.
#2.1 GAM on 20 Apr 2005 - 12:32
They both suck, as they can't seem to create Windows Installer packages.
Setup.exe was the way to go before, but let us have pure <package>.msi installers from now on please....
#2.2 shao on 21 Apr 2005 - 10:22
indeed. msi for group policy application deployment!
#2.3 rm20010 on 22 Apr 2005 - 04:23
Well I find the traditional Setup EXEs very convienent for small sub megabyte programs - too impractical to use Windows Installer for those. (NOTE: programs that install an EXE or two,some documentation, and 1 or 2 system files.) Now for large 100+ MB programs - yes, using the Windows Installer will be better.
#3 icat on 20 Apr 2005 - 10:51
cool thingy
#4 nickey on 20 Apr 2005 - 11:01
Yup, InnoSetup or NSIS are great and FREE.

But I'm afraid they don't have patches...

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