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Limitations: Cannot display the combined result from multiple transforms.

When transform differences are displayed you have the option to revert any rows to their original setting(s).

A nice feature about response transform creation is that on completion you are immediately shown the properties that have been created/set.

MSI via file save as.Ī transform can be created from the differences between 2. It is possible to merge a transform into an. I suspect this is for performance reasons. The transform differences are not displayed by default in the table view. Normal transform functionality is supported, although support for multiple transforms appears to be limited to during the creation of a response transform, at which point you can specify multiple additional transforms to include. Target registry overhead will be greater and Installs/Uninstalls will be slower on larger packages (I did not have opportunity to run further tests to quantify this).

Limitations: Apart from the minor inconvenience of locating shortcuts manually, the one resource per component approach will impact on performance. There is a section in the interface dedicated to COM where the various properties are displayed as fields on a form (with drop down lists where relevant for allowable values), but the COM tables do not get populated in the MSI it produces, except for a single field in the PROGID table. Unusually each and every resource including individual registry values is given it’s own component and the approach to COM data is radically different to Installshild. Note: Advanced Installer also includes the ability to create build & edit projects from the command line.

You will notice there is no shortcuts option, shortcuts are found in the relevant folder(s) in the Files & Folders view. The screenshot view below has been customised to just show the most relevant features. This view can be easily customised to only include features you use (e.g. A few months ago I carried out an evaluation of Advanced Installer from Caphyon in comparison with InstallShield and decided I should share this on my Blog for the benefit of anyone else who may be trying to choose an MSI Packaging tool as I couldn’t find many other people offering reviews: 1.1 GeneralĪdvanced Installer uses a similar 3 pane view to Installshield with main areas of functionality listed down the left hand side.