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Advanced Installer is a setup authoring tool which is primarily used to create Windows Installer MSI packages. It also includes features and dedicated tools designed for application deployment tasks.

Advanced Installer is a setup authoring tool which creates installers and software packages. It has both free and commercial editions.

It is primarily used for creating Windows Installer MSI packages for Windows applications, but it can also be used to create:

  • Microsoft App-V packages
  • Microsoft UWP packages (.appx)
  • VMware ThinApp packages
  • MAC OS X ZIP packages
  • Windows CE CAB files
  • Microsoft Office and Visual Studio add-in and extension packages
  • Visual Studio add-in/extension packages (.vsix)

Advanced Installer also includes dedicated tools for:

  • delivering application updates
  • integrating a trial period and licensing mechanism into an application
  • repackaging existing packages

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How can I stop the installation of prerequisites to pop every time in advanced installer?

I am creating the deployment project (.MSI) for my .NET Windows project (Visual Studio 2010) using the advanced installer 8.x by adding some driver and 3rd party SDKs. I added them as prerequisites by choosing the product keys as conditions, but…
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Switch Code Signing from token to HSM within certificate chain of trust

We use Advanced Installer and at the moment we sign the .exe and installer package with a Standard Code Sign Certificate for token using a Safenet USB token. We want to move to the cloud and use Azure Key Vault there. Azure Key Vault needs a HSM…
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How to set another odbc driver on my Advanced installer?

I want to set from my advanced installer project to use another ODBC Driver - for exemple Odbc Driver 17 for SQL Server, not the default one, SQL Server. I found information about how to set another odbc driver -…
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Ho do I set and get environment variables in windows batch command of Jenkins?

Here in the pic, you can see I am calling an API via curl. This API returns string data. I need to store this response in the Jenkins env variable and access the env variable in the second pic. I have tried setting the variable as you can see but…
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MSI Installer Application Installation Folder Location

I am using Advanced Installer in order to install a file in the following folder location: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel What I can't determine is the proper way of accessing this folder through the Advanced Installer. I've tried…
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Change encoding of publish script for Visual Studio database project

We have a database project in Visual Studio that we use to create the deployment scripts for our database. This project is published using visual studio as well as MSBuild for our automated build. The publish script contains non-latin characters,…
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[RESOLVE]ODBC Driver Manager] Data Source name not found and no default driver specified

I created a vb project and made an installer of it, it works fine with my pc and it also works on some of the users who used the system on their machine, but then there's this particular user of received this error, please help T.T I…
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Place Advanced Installer feature files in app data?

My application uses extensions that must be placed in the the folder [AppDataFolder]\A\B\C... But Advanced Installer features do not allow me to put my files in a "system folder". I really need a workaround for this limitation...
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How to update the version of my app without deleting client database using advanced installer

I have an application on a client machine and I have to fix some bugs. When I'm trying to update using the advanced installer my app loses all of localdb data on the client (the update replaces the database file). I want to know how to make my…
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Wix installer upgrade with same "upgrade code" ID shows privilege error prompt

I have developed the windows service and created the MSI installer using Wix toolset, then distributed to users. it is working as expected. Let's name this msi as version 1.0.0.0 Now, it's time to deliver a new build with service enhancements.…
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What database should I choose for prerequisites?

I have a C# project that I want create a setup for. I use Advanced Installer. I use SQL Server 2017 Express for creating instance of my database. Now when I want to choose "Prerequisites", I have 2 options: SQL Server 2017 Express SQL Server 2017…
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How to add certified publisher in desktop application using advance installer

I have created installer of .net desktop application using advanced installer. The problem is that the publisher during installation is unknown I have created test certificate which works fine on same machine but If I want to install it on other…
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Can I use Pester to mock/verify to cmdlets without parameters names?

I'm using several Powershell scripts with Advanced Installer 15.1 that I wish to test using Pester. Advanced Installer provides two Cmdlets in order to access MSI variables from Powershell scripts, AI_GetMsiProperty and AI_SetMsiProperty, which I…
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Add date to installer log file

I'm building an installer using advanced installer and have run into a problem trying to add dates into the log file. I tried a command using cmd which worked, however when I added it to the MSI commandline all the date values came out as blank.…
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How to create an installer for C++ program without exposing key files for Windows

I have created an application using qt creator which creates an .exe file. At runtime the .exe file uses dlls and a few tensorflow graphs. I tried using advanced installer for this and all my key tensorflow graphs are exposed in the directory in…
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