If there's something we've mentioned over and over again about MSIX is that it requires digital signing. We have a diversity of resources regarding this topic, from why it is a good practice to include a timestamp when signing a package, to automating the whole digital signing process of MSIX Packages.

In this article, you will learn how to configure and build an Advanced Installer Visual Studio Project(AIPROJ) from an Azure DevOps pipeline.

Working with Azure DevOps pipelines can be a tedious task, especially if you have to perform updates on complex pipelines or make the necessary configurations to each of them in a short amount of time.

Nowadays CI/CD(Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery) pipeline became a best practice for developers and DevOps helping them to manage the software process in a much easier and automated way.

There are numerous cloud services available for software developers, and some of them can be almost forgotten until we need them. And when we need them, they turn out to be invaluable.

Release management and version control go hand in hand when delivering quality software, whether you are a solo developer or part of a development team.

Digital signing is an important stage of an application packaging cycle and can be achieved by code signing your own software’s certificates. By digitally signing your software, you prove your application’s authenticity and integrity upon installation and guarantee that the software you developed hasn’t been compromised or corrupted.

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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.

Set up your complete development environment using the Advanced Installer extension for Visual Studio. This feature is available in all editions, including Freeware, and our support starts with Visual Studio 2010 up to the latest version.

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

Advanced Installer's officially supported Bamboo plugin has been released. You can now set your Bamboo-based build machines even more easily; with our plugin, configuring the last step of your build (i.e. creating the setup package for your application) requires just a few clicks.

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.

Microsoft's Web Deploy technology allows you to copy resources, configure databases, certificates, access control and other required dependencies. Use Advanced Installer to integrate this process into your product's installer and target endpoints such as:

Continuous Integration Include the installer in a shared mainline and make deployment part of the automatic build. Through its comprehensive command line interface, Advanced Installer offers full support for Continuous Integration of the installer build process.

Establish the required deployment environment on the target operating system by installing prerequisites along with your software. With Advanced Installer's intuitive GUI you're only a few clicks away from setting up sophisticated Windows configuration like:

Developing Microsoft ASP.NET web apps? Advanced Installer can help you easily deploy your applications in standard Windows Installer MSI packages. Quickly configure all the necessary settings and requirements so that your application is fully functional and ready to serve once the installation is done.

Web applications often require additional information from databases during installation. Advanced Installer's SQL Databases support can be used as a standalone feature to configure SQL servers or in collaboration with the Internet Information Services feature for complete web applications deployment scenarios.

If you're distributing a RAD tool, providing your clients with a full installer authoring feature is only a couple of steps away. Windows Installer is the most popular engine for deploying applications and Advanced Installer's mission is to help any user meet its standards in an easy, interactive way.