Advanced Installer Architect 16.7.0

Advanced Installer Architect 16.7.0

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.

Changelog:

v16.7.0 (2020-01-15)

• Predefined launch condition and prerequisite for ".NET Core Runtime 3.1"
• Predefined prerequisites for ".NET Core Desktop Runtime 3.1" and ".NET Core IIS Hosting 3.1"
• New registry entries for latest install path and version of "Advanced Installer"
• Over 15 enhancements and bug fixes

v16.6.1 (2019-12-17)

v16.6.0 (2019-12-12)

• Create an MSIX/APPX package for the Microsoft Store
• PowerShell automation to manage properties
• Destination, ReadOnly and Exclusion support for File Redirection (Package Support Framework)
• Predefined launch conditions for "Windows 10 version 1909 (November 2019 Update)"
• Over 20 enhancements and bug fixes

Homepage: http://www.advancedinstaller.com
Changelog: http://www.advancedinstaller.com/version-history.html
Release Date: 2020-01-15
OS: XP/Vista/7/8/10
Language: Multilingual
Download Page: http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

DOWNLOAD:
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Installer (138.37 MB): http://www.advancedinstaller.com/downloads/advinst.msi

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