Advanced Installer Architect 19.3.0

Advanced Installer Architect 19.3.0

Advanced Installer is a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer is a useful tool for administrators and developers which allows them to create reliable MSI packages. Windows Installer is becoming the "de facto" software installation technology on Windows. Being preinstalled on the latest Microsoft operating systems, and also bundled with the most popular productivity packages (Office, etc.) this software installer provides a significant number of power features that improve application management and administration.

This power doesn't come without pitfalls, and the most important of them all is the complexity. Creating an MSI file requires careful planning and editing of dozens of database tables.
Hundreds of pages of documentation must be read, countless lists of rules must be followed. Building a Windows Installer package may take days or even weeks. This is where a MSI creation tool comes to help.

Features:

• Advanced Installer makes MSI creation a snap
• Advanced Installer integrates in automated build tools
• Install and register the resources composing your application
• Search, download and install Prerequisites
• Organize your application in modules and components
• Secure and choose your package's presentations
• Extend the installation process with Custom Actions
• Customize the installation User Interface

Whats New

New features

    New option in Upgrades view: Generate GUIDs for all components
    New search type in the Extended Search Properties to detect installed APPX/MSIX versions
    New MSIX declarations: "User Data Accounts Provider", "Lock Screen Component"

Enhancements

    PowerShell automation support for Assemblies page
    Update "SQL Server OLE DB Driver 18" prerequisites to latest version 18.6.3
    Update "Visual C++ 2008 (Package ATL Security Update)" prerequisites
    Improved the loading time of the Extract Archive operation when saving registry entries
    Windows Firewall options for Public and Domain profiles
    Option to verify checksum for the "File Download" operation
    "Add to ignore list" option for registries and files to update the Repackager profile easily
    Notification message that informs you a custom action name has already been used when you start to name a new one
    Detect if the JSON target file is invalid and throw an error when a JSON update operation fails
    All languages are automatically upgraded when you add products to the list of releases that need to be upgraded
    Code signing certificate expiration warning
    Extract repackaging metadata informations for .vbs scripts
    Support for loading SVG images when using the Asset Generator
    XML(AIP) file format for Themes/Variations data
    UX improvement: remove the "Import Files" dialog when adding INI, XML, and JSON files to the project

Bug fixes

    An incorrect list of language is displayed when changing builds
    View Readme File keeps ExitDialog in the background
    Error importing VS 2019 solution - encoding problem
    Crash when clicking on the "AI_EMBEDDED_FILES_LOCATION" property in the "Property" table
    WinUI - RadioButton issue when using multiple text lines
    WinUI issue - scrolling down on the License Agreement dialog does not enable the CheckBox
    WinUI issue - disable the attribute for Path Edit and EditBox is not working
    Generating MSI Diff when the option is not used
    Crash when building an MSIX package using a template with the project type "Architect"
    Fixed Updater UI on Custom DPI
    ODBC Datasource configuration is removed during a rollback
    The Vivid theme does not have a preview in project creation wizards
    "Accept and Install" is not correctly displayed on the Light theme
    Build fails when a refresh button and a scrollable are on the same dialog
    Progress bar width issue on the Surface theme
    Refresh the current dialog event changes translation of text control
    Analytics uninstall reports rejected by the web server when uninstalling (with Enhanced UI on) from Control Panel
    Installer Analytics custom action reports including square bracket characters rejected by our web server
    The checkbox "Use previous version's language" unchecks itself after saving the project
    Wrong property is displayed for "ExtractComboBoxData" custom action
    The clean operation does not delete prerequisites if "Store Feature-Based prerequisites in MSI database" is checked
    Fixed import of InstallShield project
    MSIX target platform is reverted to a predefined one when editing it manually
    In the Tomcat Web Application wizard, returning to "Add files to your project" causes a Stack Trace error
    Stack trace error is thrown when building a project that has chained prerequisites excluded from specific builds
    WiX setup project conversion fails with error opening file common.ail

Homepage: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/

Changelog: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/release-19.3.html

Download: https://www.advancedinstaller.com/downloads/19.3/ad

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