Advanced Installer Architect 15.5

Advanced Installer Architect 15.5

Advanced Installer is a powerful and easy to use Windows Installer authoring tool, enabling developers to create reliable MSI packages that meet the latest Microsoft Windows logo certification guidelines. Extremely easy to use, powerful, fast and lightweight. Advanced Installer simplifies the process of building Windows Installer packages by providing a very easy to use, high level interface to the underlying technology. The program implements all Windows Installer rules and follows all the advised best practices. With this simple, intuitive interface, building a Windows Installer package will take just a few minutes. Start the program, add a few files, change the name, hit the Build button and you are done. No scripts to learn, no seminars to attend.


 

Features:

• Save on training costs - User friendly, completely GUI driven, with no scripts to learn, no databases to edit and no XML to write.
• Save time to market - Develop with wizards, import existing IDE projects, integrate into automated build tools and source control systems.
• Save on development costs - Hundreds of powerful features ready to use with just a few mouse clicks. Tons of functionality configurable for your installers.
• Reduce your support costs - Fewer number of incidents due to improper installers. Enjoy reliable installers crafted with obsessive attention to detail.
• Save on additional tool purchases - Included updater, launcher, bootstrapper, trialware, serial validation, dialog editor, additional languages and countless others.
• Increase customer satisfaction - Robust installers based on standard Windows Installer technology offering rollbacks, patches, autoupdates, etc.
• Save on consulting - Advanced Installer's fanatical support team stands ready to help you with any installer questions you may have.
• Save on migration tools - Leverage existing investments. Repackage older installers, import MSIs, WiX projects. Use open formats, avoid proprietary traps.

Features (Architect only):

• Repackager - Painlessly capture, customize and repackage existing installations into MSI packages. Upgrade legacy setups to Windows Installer technology.
• Application VirtualizationApp-V - Full support for Microsoft's Application Virtualization technology. Effortlessly build App-V packages for your software, enjoying all virtualization benefits.
• Control VMware instances from Repackager - Choose between performing captures either on development machines or on VMware virtual machines.
• Microsoft App-V Editor - Open existing App-V 5.0 and 5.1 packages with Advanced Installer, edit and save the changes from a friendly GUI.
• Control Hyper-V instances from Repackager - Choose between performing captures either on development machines or on Hyper-V virtual machines.
• Microsoft App-V Import - Create installation packages by importing existing App-V packages. The transition has never been so easy.
• VMware ThinApp - Full support for VMware's ThinApp technology. Easily create a virtualized version of your application from your installer.
• ThinApp Import - New project type to help you create installation packages from existing ThinApp project folders.
• MSI Quick-Edit - Create transforms or quickly edit existing MSI packages directly from the Advanced Installer GUI.
• SCCM deployment support - Connect remotely to your SCCM server and deploy packages without leaving Advanced Installer's GUI.

All Features

• http://www.advancedinstaller.com/feats-list.html

Changelog:

v15.5 (2018-11-21)

• Package Support Framework (PSF) integration for MSIX packages
• Import and customize MSIX Modification Packages
• Target Package registry preview for MSIX Modification Packages
• Support for MSIX Windows Store Project registry
• CURRENT USER registry support for MSIX projects
• Prerequisite .NET Core 2.1 IIS hosting bundle
• Over 21 enhancements and bug fixes

v15.4.1 (2018-10-26)

• Bug fixes - Command line build failed in trial mode

v15.4 (2018-10-17)

• Full redesign of the Repackager user interface
• Show target files for Modification Package
• Dedicated wizard to convert packages (EXE, MSI, APP-V, and AppX) into MSIX
• Predefined launch conditions for Windows 10 October 2018 Update
• Over 10 enhancements and bug fixes

Homepage: http://www.advancedinstaller.com
Changelog: http://www.advancedinstaller.com/version-history.html
Release Date: 2018-11-21
OS: XP/Vista/7/8/10
Language: Multilingual
Download Page: http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

DOWNLOAD:
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Installer (124.93 MB): http://www.advancedinstaller.com/downloads/advinst.msi

Patch (407 KB): 

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