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Advanced Installer 4.5

Press Release

Release date: November 8, 2006

Caphyon LLC is pleased to announce the release of Advanced Installer Professional 4.5, a Windows Installer authoring tool which enables developers and system administrators to easily build reliable MSI packages. Advanced Installer runs on Windows 2000/XP, and the install packages it creates run on all Microsoft Windows 9x/ME/NT/2k/XP operating systems.

Windows Installer is a powerful, but very complex technology. Mastering it on your own takes months of hard work. That's where Advanced Installer comes to help. It creates a high level abstraction on top of the underlying technology. With a clean, simple user interface, each operation is logical and intuitive. Everything is done in the user interface, without complicated scripts to learn or arcane database tables to edit.

Advanced Installer is built on standard, open formats. The project files are saved as XML files for easy integration with source control systems. Advanced Installer is FREE for the simplest, most common usages. If additional capabilities are needed, they are available at some of the lowest prices in the industry.

What's new in Advanced Installer 4.5

This new version offers Windows Vista compatibility and support, support for database server configuration and SQL script deployment, Windows Task Scheduler, and the ability to pack features in separate CAB files for on-demand web installs. Also new is a testing tool for Windows Installer searches, a custom edit control for visually editing MSI Formatted fields and many more.

• Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility and support.


• Database server configuration and SQL script deployment for Microsoft, Oracle, Postgre and MySQL databases.


• Schedule Tasks when installing your application.


• Ability to pack features in independent CAB files for minimizing download time for online installs.


• Universal Binary on Mac with support for Intel CPUs.


• Testing tool for Windows Installer searches.


• Large file number support (over 32767 files).


• LZMA compression option for prerequisites.


• LZMA compression multi-core optimization.


• Reserving extra space for install costing.


• Moving, copying or duplicating files during install.


• Smart edit controls for MSI Formatted fields offering reference auto-completion, highlight, error underlines and resolved value hints.

Advanced Installer Professional costs USD $249.
Advanced Installer Enterprise costs USD $499.

The application can be downloaded from:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com/download.html

More details about the application can be found at:
http://www.advancedinstaller.com