- Enhanced Themes for Installer User Interface
- Direct table editor
- Windows 7 Libraries
- Maintenance Plan period for Advanced Licensing module
- Installation UI testing without building the full
installer
- Username/password predefined dialog
- Microsoft Access Runtime predefined prerequisites
- Customizable, reorganized left pane navigation menu
- Over 60 enhancements and bug fixes
- Custom Tables editor
- Feature-based prerequisites
- HTML Host control in Enhanced UI
- Vertical line control in Enhanced UI
- Predefined installer project templates for: Tomcat web
applications, client-server applications and XNA Games
- Windows Server 2008 R2 predefined launch condition
- Predefined custom action for
displaying a message box
- Copy/Paste support for: Java products, registry, media, environment
variables, file associations, custom actions, services, ODBC elements, SQL
connections and scripts, scheduled tasks, themes, IIS elements and Game Explorer
- Over 50 enhancements and bug fixes
- Support for desktop ActiveSync installations
- Windows Installer transform files (MST) generation
- Fast installs through Windows Installer 5.0
- Retrieve WiX imported files from Visual
Studio project
- Ability to digitally sign
using information from the certificates store
- Ability to customize the installation folder for each feature
- Mixed 32-bit/64-bit package predefined project template
- Visual C++ application predefined project template
- .NET Framework application predefined project template
- Copy/Paste support for: dialog editor, launch conditions, Prerequisites, upgrades and searches
- Command line options for: Windows Mobile projects, patch images, adding and removing merge modules in
a MSI project, setting merge module signature information,
ProductCode.
- Windows Powershell 1.0 predefined prerequisite
- Adobe Flash Player 10 predefined prerequisite
- XNA Framework 3.1 predefined prerequisite and launch
condition
- SQL Server Express and SQL Server Compact launch
conditions
- Over 65 enhancements and bug fixes
- Single Package Authoring for WI 5.0
- Enhanced Service Configuration for WI 5.0
- Ability to generate Unicode MSI Databases
- File associations in Windows Mobile projects
- New configuration content report for Windows Mobile
projects
- Display progress information on Windows 7 Taskbar for: Auto Updater, Repackager, package
build, Enhanced UI installation and EXE bootstrapper
installation
- Added Checklist control in Enhanced UI
- Added Hyperlink control in Enhanced UI and Windows Installer 5.0 UI
- Multiple selection ListBox and ListView controls in Enhanced
UI
- ASP.NET registration for an IIS web application
- Logging support for chained packages
- Extended search support with 10 additional methods
- Predefined searches for RegAsm, Regsvr32, Aspnet_regiis and
Microsoft Office installation path
- Microsoft Silverlight predefined prerequisite
- DirectX 11 predefined launch condition
- Windows 7 predefined launch condition
- Refreshed Advanced Installer icon set
- Over 43 enhancements and bug fixes
- Windows Mobile/CE support
- Import NSIS projects
- Enhanced installation user interface
- Cleanup application-generated resources and settings at
uninstall
- Persist user-modified application data through upgrades and
repairs
- Predefined custom action for testing if a port is free (not bound
to an application)
- Predefined custom action for closing applications
- Custom name in the "Add or Remove Programs" applet
- XNA Framework predefined prerequisite and launch condition
- Windows Installer 5.0 predefined launch condition
- Internet Explorer 8 predefined launch condition
- SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP1 predefined
prerequisite
- Over 45 enhancements and bug fixes
- Ability to install multiple instances of the same product
- IIS Application Pools support
- Extensible trial period
- Programmable image slide shows for installation
background
- Back / Next navigation in Advanced Installer's graphical
interface
- Hide Java Launcher settings from end-user
- Over 29 enhancements and bug fixes
- Import Inno Setup projects
- Call function from standard DLL predefined custom action
- Ability to add new dialogs directly in the UI Sequence
- List all databases the user can connect to
- Detect process and stop process predefined custom actions
- Detect service predefined custom action
- Per-build GUI themes
- Ability to condition standard actions
- Detailed information when trying to remove a referenced file,
folder or property
- Wizard for "Browse IIS Websites & Virtual Directories"
predefined custom action
- Wizard for "Browse for SQL Servers" predefined custom
action
- Installed Office 2003 application predefined launch
condition
- Over 38 enhancements and bug fixes
- Licensing module: trials and registration support
- Play Audio File predefined custom
action
- Uninstall Previous Versions predefined custom action
- Ability to configure custom HTTP error pages for a Web Site or
Virtual Directory
- Ability to configure custom HTTP headers for a Web Site or Virtual
Directory
- Populate a combobox/listbox with all websites/virtual directories
on the target IIS server machine
- Ability to change the order of standard actions
- Wizard for creating prerequisites
- .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and SP2 predefined prerequisites
- .NET Framework 3.0 SP1 predefined prerequisite
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Redistributable predefined
prerequisite
- Active Internet connection predefined launch condition
- Installed Office 2007 application predefined launch
condition
- Over 35 enhancements and bug fixes
- Prerequisites repository for storing
and reusing user-defined prerequisites
- Option to run the ICE validation suite as part of the build
process
- Configure web application mappings at Virtual Directory
level
- Prompt to use Path Variables when adding files if
applicable
- New Condition wizard
- Duplicate build configurations
- .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 predefined prerequisite
- .NET Framework Client Profile predefined prerequisite
- SQL Server Express 2008 predefined prerequisite
- SQL Server Express 2005 SP1 and SP2 predefined
prerequisites
- Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8 predefined prerequisites
- Run file as Administrator predefined custom action
- Preserve Install Type of the old version predefined custom
action
- Support for Minor Upgrades in EXE bootstrapper
- Option to hide properties from install log
- Over 45 enhancements and bug fixes
- Complete Windows Installer 4.5 feature support
- WiX projects import
- .NET Native Image Generation 2.0 support
- .NET Native Image Generation support for assemblies installed in
GAC
- User info collection and retrieval custom action
- Support for discrete "INI entry removal" operation
- Windows Installer 4.5 predefined Prerequisites
- SQL Server compact edition predefined prerequisite
- Visual C++ 2005 SP1 redistributable predefined
prerequisite
- Visual C++ 2008 redistributable predefined prerequisite
- MS XML Parser predefined prerequisite
- Acrobat Reader 9.0 predefined prerequisite
- Acrobat Reader 9.0 predefined launch condition
- DirectX predefined launch condition
- Over 39 enhancements and bug fixes
- Full transaction support for running SQL Scripts
- Auto-discovery and browse of MS SQL Servers available on the
network at install
- Ability to use custom, configurable Variables in project
paths
- Wizard for auto-conversion of project paths to Path
Variables
- Smart cabbing
eliminates duplication of content from cabinets
- Native 64-bit version of Java launcher
- Optional 64-bit JRE bundle
- Native Unicode version of EXE bootstrapper
- Synchronizing information extracted from a COM files
- Over 34 enhancements and bug fixes
- Full Windows Games Explorer
integration and Media Center registration support
- Importing Visual Studio Setup projects
- Authoring patches in form of
downloadable EXE files
- Another new addition full customization capabilities for media
volumes and CAB archives in advanced mode
- Aero Wizard style on Vista for Updater
- Repeat support for Scheduled Tasks
- Predefined Java Runtime Environment launch condition
- Predefined Custom Actions for handling
data in ListBox and ComboBox controls
- New Build Content tab for at-a-glance build reports
- Status page displayed in Bootstrapper when prerequisites searches are performed
- Command Line option to specify languages to be included in the
package
- Sandbox testing of Prerequisite conditions
- Building packages only in a specified language
- Over 55 enhancements and bug fixes
- Importing Eclipse projects into For Java projects
- Importing merge modules into new or existing projects
- Importing MSIs into existing projects
- Template projects
- Ability to define Searches per each build
- Ability to define Launch Conditions per each build
- Wizard for creating new features
- Wizard for creating unified 32/64-bit packages
- Predefined .NET Framework 3.5 launch condition and
prerequisite
- Predefined Acrobat Reader prerequisite and launch
condition
- Newly released OS Service Packs launch conditions
- Serbian language localization
- Catalan language localization
- MSI-like wizard-style bootstrapper UI with customizable dialog and
banner images
- Bootstrapper command line for setting installation
language
- Ability to merge 64-bit merge modules into mixed 32/64-bit
packages
- Over 44 enhancements and bug fixes
- Mixed 32/64-bit installers
- Configuring the Windows Firewall
- Importing Microsoft Visual Studio projects and solutions
- Bootstrapper customization of background image, welcome text and
optional EULA
- Custom CAB archive size and number of CABs per volume
- Over 21 enhancements and bug fixes
- Importing 3rd party Windows Installer MSI packages
- Updating XML files: insert/replace/remove elements and
attributes
- Faster builds by caching and reusing unmodified archives
- Importing COM+ installation MSIs into existing Advanced Installer
projects
- Support for Driver Install Frameworks for Applications (DIFxApp)
version 2.1
- Storing encrypted digital
signature password in project (only for PFX
certificates)
- Support for Unicode SQL Scripts (UTF8 with BOM, UTF16 little or big
endian)
- Albanian language localization
- Over 43 enhancements and bug fixes
- Installing Control Panel Applets
- Nested IIS Virtual Directories
- Ability to choose Java Products for Mac builds allows per-OS
configurations
- Option to always overwrite installed file with the one included in
package
- Over 53 enhancements and bug fixes
- Patch Sequencing
- Language selection in bootstrapper for multi-language
installers
- Support configuring different "Install Parameters" for each
build
- Custom SQL connection string
- Replace hard-coded paths with properties when importing from
registry or INI files
- Over 22 enhancements and bug fixes
- Ability to capture and repackage
existing installations into MSI packages
- Support for building multiple, differently configured installers
from a single project
- Support for JRockit Java Runtime Environment
- Import Shell Shortcut files when adding to an Advanced Installer
project
- Predefined custom action to select (browse for) a file during
installation
- Over 39 enhancements and bug fixes
- Folder sharing
- Removable patches
- Automatically registering .NET assemblies for COM
interoperability
- Precompiling .NET assemblies
- Dependencies between prerequisites
- Prerequisite launch conditions: OS version and language
- Option to reboot after installing a prerequisite
- Predefined launch condition testing Administrator privileges for
installer
- Added Windows x64 series to the Supported OS launch
conditions
- Implemented all predefined launch conditions in bootstrapper as
well as in MSI
- Importing Regedit 4 .REG files
- Pre-testing SQL Server connection
- Completed translations for seven additional languages
- Extended ability to Detect and Upgrade any product, version or
language
- Over 15 enhancements and bug fixes
- CD/DVD Autorun support
- Support for digitally
signing patches
- Enabling least-privileged user account patching without UAC prompt
on Vista
- Windows Vista Default Programs support
- For Java: support for Pack200 compression yielding over 80% JAR
file size reduction
- For Java: support for Java 6 native splash screen
- Additional prerequisite search options
- Added support for displaying PatchWiz v4.0 log in build
log
- Over 11 enhancements and bug fixes
- Extended Digital Signature support to any file for friendlier UAC
prompts on Vista
- Digitally signing Java applications and the Auto Updater by default
- Support for Java applications with no Menu Bar or Dock icon in Mac
OS X
- Support for Dialog Initialization Events in MSI User Interface
- New built-in dialog for selecting the Start Menu group for
installing shortcuts
- Support for MSDE installation in SQL batch scripts
- Configurable Vista UAC requestedExecutionLevel for bootstrapper and
Java Class Launcher
- Over 19 enhancements and bug fixes
- IIS 7 on Windows Vista support
- Windows Vista restart manger support
- IIS Anonymous Access and Authentication Control (User Accounts
integration)
- Added ability to schedule runs of Updater (Task Scheduler integration)
- Simplify Patch creation by verifying and reporting preconditions on
target and updated MSI
- New Wizard for media and bootstrapper configuration
- Support for printing RTFs during install (for Licenses, Readme
files, etc.)
- Server-side serial validation (over HTTP)
- IIS Tutorial
- Conditional dialog Tutorial
- SQL Scripts Tutorial
- Over 15 enhancements and bug fixes
- Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility and support
- Database server configuration and SQL script deployment for
Microsoft, Oracle, Postgre and MySQL databases
- Schedule Tasks when installing your application
- Ability to pack features in independent CAB files for minimizing
download time for online installs
- Universal Binary on Mac with support for Intel CPUs
- Testing tool for Windows Installer searches
- Large file number support (over 32767 files)
- LZMA compression option for Prerequisites
- LZMA compression
multi-core optimization
- Reserving extra space for install costing
- Moving, copying or duplicating files during install
- Smart edit controls for MSI Formatted fields offering reference
auto-completion, highlight, error underlines and resolved value
hints
- Over 21 enhancements and bug fixes
- LZMA compression algorithm in bootstrapper for up to 50% smaller
install packages
- Creating User Accounts and Groups
- Setting Execute Permissions for IIS Web Site or Virtual
Directory
- Support for Shortcuts to Folders
- Added a Dependency Detector for EXE and DLL files
- Ukrainian and Czech localizations for MSI packages
- Allow preventing an application from being registered with Windows
Installer
- Added Events Wizard in Dialog Editor
- Support for parameterizable, Pseudo Formatted fields
- Over 15 enhancements and bug fixes
- Temporary installation files
- Multi-file custom actions
- Search-based LaunchCondition wizard
- Multi-volume data DVDs support
- Dynamic guidelines in Dialog Editor
- Importing updates configurations into updates configuration
projects
- Conditionally install IIS entities
- IIS MIME types configuration
- IIS Support for Default Document List on Virtual
Directories
- Error policy when installing already existing IIS
entities
- Over 17 enhancements and bug fixes
- Dialog Editor: full Billboard editor
- Dialog Editor Repository for exporting and importing
dialogs
- Dialog Editor Clipboard support: cut, copy and paste controls
between dialogs or applications
- Visually creating Updates Configuration files using the new project
type
- .NET Custom Actions
- New Driver wizard (Enterprise)
- JPEG and GIF format support for Java application Splash
Screens
- Over 13 enhancements and bug fixes
- Command-line options for most used UI actions, enabling a greater
degree of scripting and automation
- Ability to run a script file of commands on a project
- Multi-file Prerequisites
- Over 19 enhancements and bug fixes
- Dialog editor (Enterprise)
- Creating Configurable Merge Modules (Enterprise)
- Java product startup failure check
- Portuguese Brazil localization
- Over 17 enhancements and bug fixes
- Merge modules creation support (Enterprise)
- Danish translation
- Importing REG files
- Ability to hide installed package in Add/Remove Programs
- Setting package version taken from an EXE file (CLI)
- Setting the package and JRE paths (CLI)
- Prevent loading projects created with a newer version of Advanced
Installer
- Set an env. var. with the path of the loaded JRE (Java)
- 2 bug fixes
- Driver installation support using DIFx
- HTTPS support for the Updater
- Norwegian (Nynorsk) localization
- New Shortcut wizard
- Provided basic serial validation implementation
- Drag&Drop files from Windows Explorer
- 3 bug fixes
- Multi-language MSI packages
- Ability to check the license (on the server) before downloading
updates
- Wizard for creating Custom Actions
- Nested install custom actions
- Setting shortcut hot keys
- Polish translation added
- Adding folders to the PATH environment variable of the Java
product's process
- Providing console output for command line operation mode
- Support for Updater to run
minimized in tray
- Updates from local network
- Japanese and Spanish translation updated and completed
- Upgrade MSI Dialog
- Other smaller enhancements and bug fixes
- IIS support: Web Application mappings, Front Page server
extensions, web site default document list
- Ability to redirect stdout and stderr for Java
applications
- Support side-by-side installs of different product
versions
- File Associations wizard
- Search wizard
- Ability to run a Windows Installer version check in
bootstrapper
- Basic and Silent UI running modes for EXE bootstrapper
- MD5 signature support for checking itself and downloaded files
(prerequisites and
updates)
- HTTP user authentication support in Advanced Updater
- Advanced Updater
automated download&install mode
- Advanced Updater
application close&restart before&after an update
- On-line install - EXE bootstrapper ability to launch the MSI from
an URL
- Ability to generate install packages in Japanese
- Improved Java VM selection algorithm with JRE vs. JDK user
preference
- Local network updates support
- Other smaller enhancements and bug fixes
- IIS support: configuration and deployment of web sites, web
applications, virtual directories, ISAPI filters, etc.
- Isolated components support
- Qualified/Published components support
- Extracting registration registry entries from self-reg
DLLs
- Russian localization
- Ability to localize the Updater
- Signature check for Updates configuration file
- Windows Installer version verification in .EXE setups
- Better Platform SDK digital signing
tools detection
- Better algorithm for ProgID generation in File
Associations
- Bug fixes
- Reduced Updater size
- Bug fixes
- Auto Updater
- Full MSI launch conditions support
- User friendly condition editor
- Wizards for Professional and Java project creation
- Mac OS X Java package localization
- Installing files and folders in the root of the Mac OS X Java
package
- Added File Associations confirmation dialog in the MSI UI
- Streamlined Prerequisites Wizard
interface
- COM, COM+ and DCOM registration
- Configurable Merge Modules
- Building Mac OS X package for Java projects
- Wizard for basic Project creation
- Inclusion and exclusion filters for Synchronized Folders
- Editing multiple files' properties at once
- File version override
- Stretched or fixed size switch for dialog banners and
bitmaps
- Scheduling Custom Actions in the UI sequence
- Localizing the Java Launcher and Setup Bootstrapper
- Ability to set the Feature and Directory for each Merge
Module
- An additional 30 graphics setup themes
- Bug fixes and UI improvements
- Editing the Library Path of a Java product
- Single instance Java Product with notification and parameter
passing on secondary launch attempt
- Added translations in the French and Norwegian languages
- New type of prerequisite: Open Site option
- Improved Organization Page
- Auto-detect main class in JARs and folders
- Bug fixes
- Help clarifications
- Bug fixes
- Creating MSI packages in other languages
- Translations in the following languages: English, German, Spanish,
Italian, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional),
Dutch
- Easy to translate into your own language
- Advertised shortcuts
- Font registration
- Easy to use GUI for specifying the Java VM parameters
- Using Folders, Properties and Environment Variables in Classpath
for Java products
- Specifying JVM heap size as percents of system memory
- 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
- File and folder removal operations on install or
uninstall
- Registry key and value removal operations on install
- 64-bit packages support
- User defined MSI properties
- Support for folders based on MSI properties
- UI improvements and bug fixes
- Searching applications and resources on target computer
- INI files and entries support
- Sharing components between features
- Current feature support
- Bug fixes
- Internet Shortcuts
- Support for command-line editing
- Support for running install packages in full log mode
- Files, Folders and Shortcuts rename and move by
drag-and-drop
- Improved editing of Formatted fields that reference files, folders
or properties
- Build progress report
- Support for both SignCode and SignTool code signing tools
- Support for multiple volume installs
- Schedule Custom Actions in any stage of
the install sequence
- Six new Custom Action types
- The ability to edit the Custom Action condition and
options
- Microsoft Authenticode Digital ID signature support
- Ability to create new components for files
- Support for Synchronized Folders
- Ability to import Data Sources
- Support for multi-target builds, with and without bundled
JRE
- Support for install package with files not packed in CABs
- Supporting Unicode characters in paths to files
- Sorting rows before saving in AIP for smaller CVS diffs
- Ability to force the installation of a prerequisite
- Support for empty registry values
- More predefined install folders
- Editing File Attributes support
- Preferred JRE support
- 1 bug fix
- Support for .NET and Win32 assemblies, installed side-by-side on
Windows XP
- Setup.exe command line option for extracting package without
installing
- User Interface improvements: Ctrl+Tab to switch between
pages
- Bug fixes
- Uninstall shortcut and other command shortcuts
- Icon for Add/Remove Programs panel
- Disable Modify, Repair or Remove in Add/Remove Programs
panel
- Ability to prevent installing an older version of the product over
a newer one
- Ability to start any file (html, etc) at install finish
- Improved supported OS resolution to include SPs and OSRs
- Support for Default registry entries
- Silent install for Prerequisites
- Ability to specify a command line for Prerequisites
- Ability to accept a command line for the Setup file
- Ability to change package name and destination folder
- Ability to change project root and relative paths
algorithm
- Improved prerequisites
UI
- 3 bug fixes
- Setup.exe can look for, download and install prerequisite
applications
- Integrated help for getting started
- User Interface improvements: sorting and hide-able left
panel
- Bug fixes
- Features and Components support
- Creating and controlling new features
- Selecting the components to be included in feature
- Specifying feature attributes
- Specifying component attributes
- Java Services support
- Recursively adding registry keys
- Bug fixes
- ODBC Driver, Data Source and Translator support
- Setting permission for Files and Folders
- Setting permission for Registry Keys and Values
- Bug fixes
- Added user registration dialog with serial code validation
hooks
- Ability to open readme file or launch application when installation
finishes
- Ability to include and install Windows Installer if missing or too
old on target computer
- Context sensitive help
- Improvements and bugfixes
- Support for installing, registering and controlling
services
- Merge Modules support
- EXE bootstrapper for msi with custom icon and file
version
- Custom icon and file version in Java Native Launcher
- Relative paths in project
- User Interface custom banners and images
- User Interface additional dialogs: License, Readme
- Version and other data in saved in File Table
- 3 bug fixes
- Custom Actions support
- Bug fixes
- Empty folder creation support
- Choosing shortcut directory on creation
- Setting shortcut working directory
- File associations and MIME types support
- Improved JRE selection algorithm in Java Native Launcher
- Editable default application and shortcut installation
folders
- Major improvements to the New Project dialog
- Bug fixes
- Java Products support
- Pretty WinXP icons
- Help system
- Command line build support
- Environment variables support
- Reboot after install
- Limited UI
- Automated upgrades
- Per-user/per-machine installs
- Supported OSs
- Product support info
- Auto registration of files (DLL, OCX, EXE, etc.)
- Customizable shortcut icons (from ICO, EXE, DLL)
- UI improvements
- Major UI overhaul
- Registry support
- Shortcuts support
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