AutoForm Engineering GmbH builds software solutions that are an acknowledged industry standard at virtually every automotive OEM and at leading suppliers of tooling, stampings and materials worldwide. Over 600 manufacturers rely on AutoForm's solutions for Sheet Metal Forming.

Easily add serial number protection to your installation packages with Advanced Installer. Two custom and two predefined validation methods are available: server side validation, user defined validation, algorithm verified serials and predefined list of serials.

Advanced Installer's trial and licensing feature allows potential clients to evaluate your application before purchasing. It enables them to fully activate the application only with your consent, after receiving a valid license key.

Windows 10 is just around the corner and turns out Visual Studio 2015 will be on the stage too. We at Advanced Installer are excited to announce that our VS 2015 extension is now available, together with a new set of predefined launch conditions for the latest Microsoft software.

The official Advanced Installer plugin for TeamCity has been released. Setting up the last step of your build (i.e. creating the setup package for your application) is now just a few clicks away with our plugin, making it even easier to configure your TeamCity-based build machines.

Installer Analytics is out of beta, with this release we are also announcing our free 2-month subscription.

The 12.1 release brings a new set of reports available in your Installer Analytics dashboard. Now you can see how your users uninstall or upgrade your application, which version they are using, the errors they encounter and many more parameters that you can use to fine-tune your application.

A bug in Windows Installer expands environment variables present in a folder's name and stops the installation with an error, due to an invalid folder name.

The packaging and deployment of an application is often a neglected step from its development life cycle. Learn what are the key features required in a professional installation package.

With Advanced Installer 12, the Advanced Installer Team is delighted to add another killer tool to the deployment engineer's arsenal: Installer Analytics. Uncover the missing piece of business intelligence in understanding how your application gets deployed to your users' computers.

Every time a new version of Firefox has to be installed you must search or test if the settings from the config file have changed, to check if they are still valid or not.

Advanced Installer's App-V Editor exclusively enables you to open, edit and save App-V 5.x packages from an easy to use GUI or CLI. Using our high level interface you will be able to configure various elements in the App-V package:

The 11.9 release brings our new App-V editor. Quickly modify anything in your App-V packages from an user friendly GUI.

Performing MSI quick-edits from Advanced Installer's user interface is extremely easy and intuitive. Configure MSI installers on the fly and save changes as MST transform files, App-V or ThinApp package types.

The 11.8 release simplifies browsing for IIS websites and application pools. It also brings major enhancements in our virtualization support, with the new ability to import App-V 5.0 packages.

The 11.7 release simplifies browsing for SQL servers and databases, also integrating the custom UI required for SQL connections.

Advanced Installer is the key to packaging and deploying every new version of EmEditor globally. Automating its distribution means more time can be invested in its development.

ISO 19770-2 is an international standard that aims to simplify identification of software applications installed on a computer. Advanced Installer allows you to create setup packages that deploy specific information required by this standard to accurately identify the installed application.

The 11.6 release simplifies working with Virtual Machines for repackaging or testing your installers. Create VM profiles containing your virtualization preferences then reuse them every time you need. Automate the UI interaction for even quicker testing of your installers in VMs.