Deciding between Express and Developer

[Abel_II]

Questions on these features....What are they?

Debugger

Genuine Scripting for Windows Installer

Automatic Variable Passing to/from Script

[Abel_II]

Oh yea and I'm assuming that InstallAware 2005 works with the Visual Basic 6 Environment. There is really no mention of this anywhere.

[sinan]

You may create setups for VB6 projects in InstallAware, and of course automatically install the VB6 runtime. If your setup requires additional third party runtimes/controls, you will need to install them as part of your setup also.

The debugger lets you step through your setup script line by line. It will be helpful primarily if your setup script is complex - for instance, if you are prompting the user for various items of information, and execute different tasks accordingly.

Genuine Scripting for Windows Installer is the technology with which InstallAware makes developing Windows Installer setups that employ custom scripting very easy. The graphical choices such as adding files and registry entries are provided as most tools offer. However, when you switch to the "script view" you do not see a list of sequences and actions, but an easy to read (and manipulate) script that spells out each action to be taken by the MSI and under what condition.

Automatic variable passing lets you, for instance, to put a custom text field, radio/check boxes in your setup wizard pages, and then get/set the values for the user, and use them in your script as needed.