Advanced Installer Projects for Visual Studio

Advanced Installer extension for Microsoft Visual Studio allows to create Advanced Installer Projects for Visual Studio. Each such project is a container that can include a single .AIP file. As an .AIP file represents a setup package, an Advanced Installer Project for Visual Studio can include one or more setup packages in accordance with your needs.

.AIP is an acronym for Advanced Installer Project and an .AIP file contains the description of a setup package. You should make a clear distinction between these standard Advanced Installer Projects and the Advanced Installer Projects for Visual Studio. An Advanced Installer Project for Visual Studio can contain one or more standard Advanced Installer Projects.

.AIPROJ is the extension used by the files representing Advanced Installer Projects for Visual Studio.

When it is created, an Advanced Installer Project for Visual Studio contains only one .AIP file. To add a new empty .AIP file to project, use “Add -> New Item ...” option from Solution Explorer context menu.

Already existent .AIP files can be also added to an Advanced Installer Project for Visual Studio. To do that, use “Add -> Existent Item ...” option from Solution Explorer context menu. You need to delete first the existing .AIP.