Astrum InstallWizard is a versatile installation creation utility. AIW has a host of advanced features normally available only in the most expensive tools, such as Dialog editor and AutoUpdater. All the basic features (multilingual, single-exe, registry, shortcuts, ...) are naturally also supported. Although AIW is feature packed, the user interface is still intuitive allowing you to create professional looking installations in matter of minutes.
Deploying any kind of software application is one of the most complex tasks you face as a developer. It's difficult to prepare an application correctly for installation on every possible system configuration and provide deployment options. SetupBuilder 6 attempts to help you do it all.
InstallAware creates Windows Installer MSI setups with easy MSIcode scripting. Instead of populating MSI databases to build your setup, or being stuck with the limitations of visual designers, use the intuitive MSIcode scripting environment to build your MSI installers. InstallAware will automatically convert your conditionally flowing MSIcode script into a legal Windows Installer MSI database at build time.
The InstallAware MSI installer builds sophisticated, visually appealing setups with support for the latest technologies, including IIS, Microsoft/Oracle/MySQL database servers, Web Updates, Partial Web Deployment, DIFx Driver installs, Vista, 64bit, and one-click installation of complex application runtimes like Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 with Service Pack 1. Setups are compressed up to 67% smaller than their MSI installer counterparts.
InstallAware is first to market with an IDE targeting Microsoft's open source WiX platform. WiX is used internally by Microsoft teams to build world-class installers such as Microsoft Office. Until today, WiX remained hard to use, as it did not provide a GUI but only command line tools. Now with the new WiXAware IDE by InstallAware, you too can use the same technology that Microsoft teams internally use to build software installers.
Installation builder that will deliver your software with a good first impression: a smooth installation. Computer novices enjoy its ability to install your software without asking any questions, while computer experts enjoy the control and feedback it offers when they click the Advanced Options button. You will enjoy both the positive response from your customers and the ability to effortlessly build those setup packages with DeployMaster.
The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your InstallShield setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.
The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your Windows Installer setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.
InstallAware Studio Admin lets you reverse engineer existing Windows Installer setups and make customizations to them. Simply run the Database Import Wizard to produce a ready to build InstallAware setup project which can be further customized. The Database Import Wizard can convert any MSI or MSM database into an InstallAware project which may then be freely edited in the InstallAware Studio Admin IDE and then rebuilt with custom modifications.
InstallAware Studio features a state-of-the-art automation interface which can be used to generate setups dynamically from your applications and/or websites, and build them on-the-fly. InstallAware provides a redistributable build engine, so you can build your generated setups on any system. The Studio Edition's advanced repackaging engine lets you execute any MSI setup - to install it, upgrade it, repair it, re-install it, or remove it.
