A toast notification is a message that your app can create and deliver to your user while they are not currently inside your app.

Beginning with version 19.5 of Advanced Installer, you can now display a toast notification whenever an update is available once the application has been launched.

We use MSI or EXE files whenever we install a Windows application, so we're pretty used to them. But, what is an MSI file, and what makes it different from an EXE file? What’s the easiest way to open and edit an MSI installer?

Code signing is one of the most reliable ways to secure and authentify that our code is trustworthy. It is achieved by signing executables and scripts using a digital certificate with a unique cryptographic hash to connect the identity of the publisher to the software. This code signed certificate includes all the information required to fully identify the publisher.

Although not as popular and widely adopted as MSI, ClickOnce has been around for some time in the application packaging industry. ClickOnce enables you to create self-updating Windows-based applications that can be installed and run with minimal user interaction.

In March 2022, we launched “The Installer Testing Guide” ebook (if you don’t have it already, grab your free copy now).

With Advanced Installer’s PowerShell automation, you can automatically create the Updates Configuration File –the one placed on your server and used by the Updater to determine if there are any updates available.

If you are a System Administrator, IT Pro, or Developer, and want to find out how to perform a silent MSI or EXE installation – this article is for you!

As a developer or ISV, you spend most of your time developing and improving applications to meet your users’ needs.

Advanced Installer 19.4 brings you a new built-in functionality to help you automate the process of adding context menu items to your application.

In this article we’ll go through how you can preserve customizations between IIS (Internet Information Services) updates in just one-click.

Prior to Windows 10 version 2004, if your MSIX package contained an HKCU registry and your application tried to modify it, the operation would crash.

Applications behave differently when running within an MSIX container. For example, you cannot set a non-executable file as a target for your application by default.

In this ever-changing tech world, we are constantly adapting to keep up with the changes and remain relevant in the software sector we work in.

We extremely recommend you to validate an MSI before attempting to install it for the first time.

We are so excited about our new Github Actions integration that we can't help it.

You are invited to join our upcoming LIVE Webinar to see a demo where Advanced Installer presents its own GitHub Action integration, and learn how to use it.

In our previous article titled "How to automate the MSI building using GitHub Actions", we saw how you can use Advanced Installer's own GitHub Action to automate the build of your MSI packages.

In this article, we will take a look at how MSIX technology handles log files whenever an installation issue occurs.

What's the most efficient way to perform quick edits to an MSI package?