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App-V 5.x Compatibility and Automatic Fixes

Assess and plan your packaging process easily by validating your applications against the App-V compatibility rules.

#APPLICATION-VIRTUALIZATION

Advanced Installer 13.1 Released

The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 is getting closer. Along with it we are working on Advanced Installer to get you ready.

July 19th, 2016

Repackager Quality Assessment

Verify what resources were added, modified or removed in the repackaged installation by comparing the results with the original installation, all within Advanced Installer's GUI.

#REPACKAGER #ENTERPRISE-PACKAGING

Meet us at BriForum in Boston

Microsoft has announced starting this summer App-V will be a built-in Windows feature. This brings desktop virtualization to a new level. If you want to learn more on the topic from the industry experts join us in Boston at BriForum 2016, between July 26-28th.

#EVENT #NEWS

Advanced Installer 13.0 Released

Advanced Installer brings the future Windows application packaging and deployment standard, AppX, to your existing Win32/.NET applications, through full support for Project Centennial.

June 2nd, 2016

BriForum London 2016

Our team just came back from London. We were extremely happy to be one of the sponsors for what is probably the best conference on desktop virtualization from Europe, BriForum.

#EVENT #NEWS

AppX Packages and Project Centennial

Package your Win32/.NET application as an AppX package and leverage all the benefits of the Universal Windows Platform (UWP). Without any changes you can have your current application in the Windows Store and get access to all the new WinRT APIs.

#APPX

Advanced Installer 12.8 Released

Virtual machines are mandatory if you want to optimize your testing or repackaging efforts. Version 12.8 includes built-in support to create new virtual machines directly from within Advanced Installer.

March 23rd, 2016

Merge Modules

Merge modules are the Windows Installer standard for reusable setup logic and resources. Development teams can build and distribute MSM files that include installer components and functionality shared between applications.

#APPLICATION-RESOURCES #MSI

Monitoring Desktop Installations on Windows

You might think that the users downloading your application also install it. That is not true. If you want to see how many users install your application successfully you need to track the application, in this case its setup package.

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Bogdan Mitrache

March 4th, 2016 · 2min read

#ANALYTICS

Validation of RC files in Visual Studio

The RC Text Bounds Checker is an open source command line tool that helps you build an application UI which will look good on any screen size, no matter its DPI settings.

#VISUAL-STUDIO

Bug hunting with analytics

Finding bugs is never easy. You get customer complaints, spend tens of hours reproducing and fixing the problems, then start all over again. It's the never-ending circle of software development.

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Advanced Installer 12.7 Released

The 12.7 release is a major security update containing two very important security features:

February 4th, 2016

Installer Vulnerability Update

A vulnerability in all Windows OSes allows a malicious DLL to hijack your EXE installer upon launch. While the EXE shows your legitimate digital signature the attacker DLL will be able to run in the background.

#SECURITY #NEWS

SHA-2 Digital Signature Upgrade

Starting with January 1st, 2016 Microsoft is implementing a mandatory update of the Digital Signature system from SHA-1 to SHA-2 in order to deal with the decreasing security of the SHA-1 digital signatures. A limited dual-signing system is supported for backwards compatibility.

#DIGITAL-SIGNATURE

Mailbird - Case Study

The team behind Mailbird has one vision, to create "The world's best email solution that is highly secure, fast and innovative" and it will stop at nothing to build remarkable email software that helps everyday people and professionals take control of their life. Mailbird goes over and beyond, delivering real global email solutions with the best services.

Advanced Installer 12.6 Released

The 12.6 release further refines our App-V support. We've made it faster for you to convert standard packages to App-V with a redesigned wizard and also extended our support for COM objects inside App-V packages.

December 8th, 2015

Official Partners

Our partners can offer dedicated training and license reselling services for Advanced Installer. Some partners also offer their services in the neighbouring countries, we recommend to contact your closest partner for more details.

Visual Studio Extension updates

Starting this summer we are a VSIP premier member, working together with Microsoft's team to deliver you our best Visual Studio extension.

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Installer Analytics brings built-in support for Uninstall Surveys

You know everything your user does on your website from the moment he loads the first page until he downloads a trial version of your application. But you don't understand why so few users buy your application.

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