While much attention goes into the design of software products, when it comes to commercial software sold to businesses, it is often the installer that receives the least amount of attention when in comparison to the impact that the component has on the customer. The customer is not only the end-user that considers your application to be their personal “mission critical app“.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

Reduce your support costs with better testing. Virtual Machines are the perfect candidate for fast and efficient testing and now even for debugging your installers, using our new support for MSI logging in VMs.

Maximize your market outreach with our full support for the just launched Microsoft Windows 10. Seamlessly include predefined OS and Office 2016 launch conditions or the latest .NET prerequisites.

Streamline your Windows 10 adoption, with 100% compliant setup packages. Build the latest generation of MSIX packages with a tool recommended by Microsoft.

Advanced Installer's officially supported Bamboo plugin has been released. Now you can configure your Bamboo-based build machines even easier, setting up the final stage of your build (i.e. building the setup package for your application) is just a few clicks away with our plugin.

Wondering how to dole out your product's functionality in license editions like Professional, Enterprise or Architect? With Advanced Installer's Stock Keeping Units support you can seamlessly group features and generate edition specific serial keys.