The Advanced Installer Shell Integration

At install time, the Advanced Installer MSI package uses the File Associations support to associate itself with the Advanced Installer Project files, which have the .AIP extension. Two verbs are added to the Windows Explorer context menu: Open and Build.

The Open action

Selecting the "Open" menu item of the right-click context menu of a .AIP file in Windows Explorer will open Advanced Installer with the specified project file.

The Build action

Selecting the "Build" menu item of the right-click context menu of a .AIP file in Windows Explorer will start Advanced Installer without UI, in the background, to build the project and quit.