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ADVANCED INSTALLER CUSTOM ACTION PROPERTIES UPGRADE
ADVANCED INSTALLER CUSTOM ACTION PROPERTIES TRIAL

I was happy, those guys really thought of everything – evaluating from the custom action to the entire installer package. I ran the MSI, after few click on Next the UAC dialog was presented and then I have expected the bootstraper will be created, however there was just MSI in the output. I got IIS page made in few minutes, then I hooked up ListBox to right property and it was ready for a test run. It was drag and drop experience, just like in Windows.Forms. Setting up such query requires few clicks. I was very surprised that guys at Advanced Installed thought of that and they have created their own custom actions for IIS queries. Previously I solved this with running a bootstrapper before MSI (yes, losing all the MSI functionality in the way). Problem with IIS is that it needs elevated rights to query it. My first task was to select a web site from IIS that would require a custom dialog and some custom actions. So I started, having some background with MSI I didn’t have problems with terminology, properties, features, conditions where all familiar to me. Spoiler alert, I did it all, and in just a few days! Customization from a build script (version increase, setting the UpgradeCode, harvesting the files for features).

ADVANCED INSTALLER CUSTOM ACTION PROPERTIES UPGRADE

Setup must be able to upgrade when the fourth (revision) version is changed.

Output must be a MSI file (without bootstraper).

My goal was to cover all the features I needed for my setup: That’s all I could I ask from a SW vendor.

They even got a nice set of short tutorial videos on YouTube, covering most of basic and also some advanced topics, link - bonus.

Their developers are involved forums and they have quick and in-depth response.

Documentation is written in a clear manner with nice FAQ section answering most common problems - good.

They ship new version almost every month - good.

ADVANCED INSTALLER CUSTOM ACTION PROPERTIES TRIAL

I found Advanced Installer, initially I was skeptical, how come I haven’t heard of this product before, probably because this product has some limitations … I found they offer a 30-day trial so I have decided I’ll give it a shot, I might lose some time but gain would be incredible.įirst I did my research about the company and the product: Then I started checking around the web if there’s ANY new products around that could help me with creating a setup. Immediately I have started thinking how I could just redo the deployment process, so no changes would be required with WiX. And I tell you, life was good! Then one day I got email with Jira ticket overview, request for new setup for v2.0 of our product. Now I haven’t touched setup project for almost a year. Creating setups is not my primary job, so the learning curve for WiX was always here. With WiX it was love & hate relationship, I have been jumping around the office every time I get something done, and I pulled my hair out when trying to figure why it’s not behaving the way I expect and don’t get me even started with creating a custom dialog. Most of them created with WiX toolset, I have tried InstallShield … then moved back to WiX toolset. I have created my fair share of installers in my career.