{"id":119,"date":"2012-08-22T04:47:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=119"},"modified":"2012-08-22T04:47:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T12:47:43","slug":"list-of-new-features-in-installaware-nx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.installaware.com\/blog\/?p=119","title":{"rendered":"List of New Features in InstallAware NX"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDE<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Summary, UAC, and ISO design view now lets you set the ISO\/IEC 19770-2:2009 software identification (SWID) tag for your application.
\nThe New Project dialog now lets you promote any setup project into a project template.
\nThe Replace dialog now replaces all instances of text found in a setup command, instead of replacing only the first instance.
\nThe Authenticode Signature design view now has an option to automatically code sign all .EXE, .DLL, .OCX, .SYS, .CPL, .DRV, and .SCR files being installed by setup for Windows 8 logo program compliance.
\nThe Build Settings design view now has an option to automatically build all setup layouts as MSI files.
\nThe Project Manager now opens all script and dialog browsers inside the active project folder.
\nThe Add Dialogs to Project window now permits adding more than one custom dialog simultaneously.
\nYou may now create and navigate to bookmarks inside the MSIcode script editor.
\nThe code navigation drop-downs now include the full list of available MSIcode script bookmarks.
\nThe IDE now prompts to confirm when you attempt to save a read-only file, to ensure your project folders remain synchronized with source control.
\nThe IDE most recently used file list now accommodates double the number of projects and displays full project paths on mouse-over.<\/p>\n

Tools and Libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Dialog Editor now automatically refactors rules when the name of a dialog control is changed.
\nA Visual Studio 2012 Add-In is now available. The add-in automatically generates and builds InstallAware<\/strong> setups for your Visual Studio 2012 solutions. These may then be built as App-V virtualized packages using the Build App-V Package tool.
\nAll Visual Studio Add-In generated projects have been updated for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 eco-system, automatically including the new Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 runtimes as necessary.
\nGroup Policy Wizard generated MSI files now do not display dual User Account Control elevation prompts. Elevation prompts are no longer hidden in the background.
\nGroup Policy Wizard generated MSI files now display progress feedback with cancel support when extracting large payloads.
\nThe App-V Viewer tool has been updated with performance and stability improvements.
\nThe command line build tool may now add patch references not included in the original project.
\nA new MiaBuildProjectEy function is available as part of the automation interface which displays the build window with a parent handle.
\nA new .NET assembly is now available as part of the automation interface for use within the .NET eco-system.
\nNew MFC, C#, and ASP.NET samples are available for use with the automation interface.
\nThe Product Name and Product Version fields in the version information structures of built EXE files are now populated.<\/p>\n

Plug-Ins<\/strong><\/p>\n

A new .NET Plug-In Bridge is available for calling managed code plug-in assemblies from your setups.
\nA new runtime is available for Microsoft SQL Server 2012.
\nThe runtimes for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, 2.0 with Service Pack 1, and 2.0 with Service Pack 2 have been updated to enable installation on Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.
\nNew runtimes are available for the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
\nNew runtimes are available for the Microsoft Visual C++ 11 Runtime in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
\nNew runtimes are available for the Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.
\nNew runtimes are available for the Microsoft IIS Express 8 Web Server in both 32 bit and 64 bit flavors.<\/p>\n

Setup Engine<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new $CHARSET_OVERRIDE$ pre-defined variable permits to automatically change dialog font character sets without having to duplicate dialogs in multi-lingual setups.
\nSetup billboards now resume automatically from the last billboard shown instead of resetting to the first billboard between different displays of progress dialogs.
\nThe $NATIVE_LOGGING$ pre-defined variable can no longer be overridden unless a full file path (including full folder information) is provided.
\nDouble-buffering for setup controls is now selectively enabled based on the active system theme, for improved display of setup controls.
\nThe new #SIGN_ALL_INPLACE# pre-defined compiler variable controls whether code signing occurs in-place or out-of-place during a build.<\/p>\n

New Scripting Commands<\/strong><\/p>\n

The new Evaluate XPath Query command runs an XPath query against a specified XML file.
\nThe new For Each and Next commands allow for the construction of for loops.<\/p>\n

Updated Scripting Commands<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Advertised Shortcut\/Create Shortcut commands can now run applications as administrator on operating systems with User Account Control (or run them with alternate credentials on operating systems older than Windows Vista).
\nThe Advertised Shortcut\/Create Shortcut commands can now prevent the automatic inclusion of shortcuts on the new Windows 8 Start Screen.
\nThe Advertised Shortcut\/Create Shortcut commands can now prevent the user pinning of applications.
\nThe Break and Continue commands allow for immediately terminating or continuing to the next iteration of for loops.
\nThe Get System Settings command now supports Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machine detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

IDE The Summary, UAC, and ISO design view now lets you set the ISO\/IEC 19770-2:2009 software identification (SWID) tag for your application. The New Project dialog now lets you promote any setup project into a project template. The Replace dialog now replaces all instances of text found in a setup command, instead of replacing only … <\/p>\n

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