InstallAware 5.3 Now Available for Download

[MichaelNesmith]

What's New in InstallAware 5.3

InstallAware 5.3 contains the following new features and enhancements for developing Windows Installer setups.

IDE

The IDE can now dynamically scan .EXE file dependencies. Found dependencies may be added to any setup feature.
Certain registry keys previously supported in the script view are now available in the visual portions of the IDE.
In the compression phase of building setups, hyperthreading, dual core, or multi processor systems are now automatically detected and compression tasks are spread across multiple (logical) CPUs to reduce build times.
The IDE now offers the ability to directly create new folders in the Files visual view. Additionally, pre-defined system folders on the target system may now be displayed as part of the target system folder hierarchy, again while working in the Files visual view.
The IDE now offers the ability to directly create new keys in the Registry visual view.

Tools and Libraries

PackageAware has been updated to automatically detect more types of registry key changes, supporting all key types Windows Installer can work with. The built-in exclusion list has been expanded to reduce, and in most cases eliminate, post-capture setup tuning.
The command line build tool now performs significantly faster builds. The tool no longer displays a GUI window and directly writes all of its output immediately to the console window.

Plug-Ins

The new File Bag plug-in bundles a collection of files, with support for wildcards and subfolders, at compile time with either the main setup.exe file or a web media block. The plug-in returns the location where the bundled files are available at runtime through a script variable. This new plug-in essentially provides a recursive, flexible, wild-card based support files mechanism.

[CandiceJones]

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If you are a trial customer:

1) Install the latest trial version

To take advantage of the latest feature, performance, and stability improvements in InstallAware.