Advanced Installer 6.3 Release Notes

On May 7th, 2008 Caphyon Ltd. is proud to announce the release of Advanced Installer 6.3 in Free, Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions. This release is available for download on the Advanced Installer website.

The 6.3 version delivers tremendous time-saving features for game developers: one-click integration in Windows Vista's Games Explorer and registration in Windows Media Center.

Also new is an advanced, full-control mode for media volumes and CAB archive settings, allowing you to finely tune the way your products are compressed, packaged and delivered to your customers.

You can quickly convert your existing Microsoft Visual Studio Setup projects to Advanced Installer using the new addition to its powerful import capabilities.

New features

Full Windows Games Explorer integration and Media Center registration support
Importing Visual Studio Setup projects
Authoring patches in form of downloadable EXE files
Another new addition full customization capabilities for media volumes and CAB archives in advanced mode
Aero Wizard style on Vista for Updater
Repeat support for Scheduled Tasks
Predefined Java Runtime Environment launch condition
Predefined Custom Actions for handling data in ListBox and ComboBox controls
New Build Content tab for at-a-glance build reports
Status page displayed in Bootstrapper when prerequisites searches are performed
Command Line option to specify languages to be included in the package
Sandbox testing of Prerequisite conditions
Building packages only in a specified language

Enhancements

Ability to add and configure merge modules in the Mixed 32/64 package wizard
Ability to configure "Start Type" combo box for services in merge modules
Creating IIS Web Application Mappings with external script processor files
Prerequisite integrity check is now optional
Ability to use environment variables in prerequisite URLs
Simplified adding files to firewall exceptions list
Default component for a new INI entry is the component of the previous entry
Creating multilingual packages without the base language
Updated OS lists for the launch conditions of a prerequisite
Configurable login timeout for an SQL Connection
Managing per-build properties through the command line
Conditioning the creation of scheduled tasks
File extraction progress in bootstrapper
Registry values and keys can be copied in the "Registry" page
Custom action view help page now differs with the selected custom action's type
It is now possible to use "/exenoui" or "/exebasicui" with "/exelang" in Bootstrapper
Bootstrapper MSI command line supports environment variables, registry values and system Windows folders

Bug fixes

The most recent project was loaded when double-clicking an AIP file
PNG images from an ICO not converted correctly when set as the icon of an EXE
Mouse wheel not working in the left menu
Setup reboots with wrong command line if run from CD
'ProcessorArchitecture' attribute not detected correctly for x86 managed C++ assemblies
Empty property not resolved correctly when used by itself in a formatted string in AI support custom actions
Acrobat Reader launch condition not saved properly after a build
A.I. registry key uninstalled by packages with users and groups
Bootstrapper not returning to its caller the msiexec return code
Exception trying to edit the "AI_ViewReadme" or "AI_LaunchApp" control event
If you have the side by side option set and you use the command line to increase the version, the GUIDs of the components were not regenerated
Bundled JRE dialog always marked project as modified
When deleting a patch image and adding a new one, the path of the new image still pointed to the old image
The default registry path for HKEY_USERS has been changed to HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\[Manufacturer]\[ProductName]
Crash calculating free space in Bootstrapper on WindowsNT 4.0
Changing CurrentBuild doesn't mark project as modified
Some dialogs always marked project as modified
Exception editing a Control Event linking the UI chain from a second referencing location
Imported XML files not removed from the target machine during rollback
More consistent handling of invalid icons throughout the application
If an old version project was saved twice the back-up file was overwritten with the converted project
When all features were excluded from some builds the MAC OS build was considered empty (even if wasn't) and it was not built
When checking and unchecking "Extract registration information from native library" option for a file, some registry keys will be left under HK_Classes_Root\CLSID
For PostgreSQL, the "Create database if it does not exist" option caused an error during database SQL deployment
Temporary files having the same name and using the same property were not removed after installation
".NET Installer Class Action" custom actions not displayed correctly when a merge module AIP file was opened
Single-line Smart Edit controls should not accept multiple lines from the clipboard
Values from scanned root registry key were ignored when repackaging installations
The icon size in the left pane not remembered when creating new projects
Duplicate ProgID's were allowed by the modification of some properties
Installation failing when having a dialog that contains a radio button group with two radio buttons with the same value
SQL Server did not execute all statements in a large SQL script batch file executed as a whole, while returning SUCCESS
Crash when editing the DoAction Control Event from the [Next] button on the UserRegistration dialog
Combobox, ListBox and ListView controls were not allowed to have the same attached property
Windows Installer properties in a merge module had the MSM GUID appended to them
Prevent importing MSI files containing shortcuts with invalid targets
Crash when loading a Visual Studio project with an expired evaluation period
Updates project output path not correctly calculated for defaults