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Advanced Installer 14.6 Released

The latest version of Advanced Installer brings a new set of predefined custom actions for managing AppX packages, streamlining your deployment for modern applications on Windows 10.

February 19th, 2018

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Ai v14

Advanced Installer 14.5 Released

The latest version of Advanced Installer brings you a new set of predefined prerequisites, enabling you to easily provision end-user machines and provide your users with the best installation UX.

November 27th, 2017

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Updating a Repackaged Application

Automatically migrate your project customizations from the first version of a repackaged application, while repackaging a newer version.

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PowerShell Custom Actions

Easily create new PowerShell scripts or integrate existing ones into your installer with the predefined custom actions.

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Advanced Installer 14.4 Released

The latest version of Advanced Installer completes our integration with Visual Studio Team Services with full support for hosted VMs, thus creating new continuous integration options for your team.

October 26th, 2017

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Installing Windows Services

Adding a service to your project is as simple as going to the Services page, pressing the New Service button and selecting it.

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Advanced Installer 14.3 Released

Step up your continuous integration, now you can take Advanced Installer and run it inside your VSTS environment using our predefined extensions.

September 18th, 2017

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Advanced Installer - Azure DevOps Integration

Advanced Installer projects can now be built on your hosted agents using our extensions and Azure DevOps, making the packaging process a lot smoother for your team.

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Synchronized Folders

Synchronizing folders can make the installer creation process faster and easier by automatically detecting and syncing to Advanced Installer changes made to the installer files on your disk.

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Language Selection Dialog

Reach more users, create installers for an international market with just a few clicks.

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Windows App Certification Kit Validation

Getting your application in the Windows Store can be at times a difficult process, this is why Advanced Installer helps you with Windows App Certification Kit(WACK) validation, to make sure your app is ready to publish.

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Ai v14

Advanced Installer 14.2 Released

Windows 10 updates are being released more often than ever. Keep your software up to date with the latest requirements from Microsoft, validate it using the Windows App Certification Kit (WACK), with just one click. Check the video below to see how we integrate the WACK in your build process.

July 26th, 2017

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Reports

Building packages can be quite challenging and complicated at times, this is why Advanced Installer offers a way to have an overview of your package content as well as creating reports to document the entire process.

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Localize in a New Language

Advanced Installer comes with a multitude of languages built-in, but there are cases when you need to localize a new language or change an existing one.

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Multilingual Packages

In a global market, it is essential to make the installation process of your software as easy to understand as possible; localizing your installer UI is one of the most important actions you can take.

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Advanced Installer 14.1 Released

Back in June 2007, we launched version 5.0 of Advanced Installer that marked the debut of our Repackager. Fast forward 10 years and now the Repackager has built-in support to connect to remote Hyper-V machines, taking your packaging process to the next level.

June 27th, 2017

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Multiple Instances

Install numerous instances of your application on a single machine by using Advanced Installer’s built-in Multiple Instances feature.

MSIX ∙ APPX

The fastest way to a modern application package format that will streamline your application deployment on Windows 10.

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Advanced Installer 14.0 Released

Fast forward your desktop application development with the unique debugging options from our new Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 extension, for Desktop Bridge apps. Take a look how easy it is to debug your applications inside an UWP app container, in the video below.

May 7th, 2017

Debug MSIX packaged apps with Advanced Installer

Debug your desktop application inside an MSIX app container using the Visual Studio extension from Advanced Installer Professional edition, or higher.

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