created the topic: what is Tarma Installer 5 and its usage?
Stand-alone installers with the widest platform support for professional developers.

Create stand-alone installers for any Windows 32-bit or 64-bit desktop or server platform, with complete customization of all installer actions and dialogs.

* Supports all Windows 32-bit and 64-bit versions from 95 to Vista and Windows 7
* Creates Windows Mobile installers
* Full .Net assemblies and prerequisites support
* Full Windows side-by-side assemblies support
* Efficient merge modules for Visual C/C++ runtime libraries
* Wide range of installation items
* Add-on and update installers also supported
* All installer screens fully editable, or create your own
* Total control over all installation actions and installer features
* Fully isolated Current User installations
* Unicode through-and-through
* No scripting
* Extensive preflight checks catch problems before you deploy your product

Major features

Welcome to Tarma Installer. Tarma Installer helps you to create installation (“Setup”) programs for your own software product. Its major features are:

Intuitive development environment
An easy to use development environment with clearly subdivided project sections and pages, plus extensive help and toolbars.
Wide range of installation items
You can install files, folders, shortcuts, registry keys and values, INI file values, environment variables, file extensions, COM and DCOM classes and servers (including ActiveX controls), type libraries, and services, with a comprehensive range of options.
Feature- and component-based installation
Features are pieces of functionality that the user can select for installation in a tree-like structure, while components are groups of installation items defined by the developer that must be installed or removed together.
Windows Mobile installer support
As of Tarma Installer 5.2, you can now create Windows Mobile installers from any Tarma Installer project, and install the resulting .cab files when your main product is being installed.
Small and fast
The Tarma Installer Setup.exe program is small, fast, and has excellent compression, making your installation packages as compact as possible, thus saving download time and disk space.
Extensive preflight checking
More than 450 different preflight checks spot potential problems before you deploy your installation.
Fully editable installer action sequences
You have complete control over the installer’s actions, even to the point that it’s not an installer at all, but, for example, a CD-ROM AutoRun menu application.
Fully editable installer dialogs and dialog sequences
Using the built-in dialog editor, you can completely redefine any and all dialogs in the installation wizard, add any dialogs that you need, or even remove all of them completely.
Flexible symbolic expressions
Symbolic expressions can be used for many purposes, including file and folder paths, registry paths, system and runtime information, and of course general text that must be easily replaceable. Our runtime functions offer even more possibilities.
Comprehensive language and localization support
Virtually any piece of text that is visible to the user can be localized, including, but not limited to: dialogs, messages, file and folder names, shortcut titles, and registry data. You can build a single installer that includes all languages, or separate installers for each language from a single project. The Tarma Installer development environment, its project files, and the Tarma native installation database and Setup program are Unicode-based from the ground up to ensure that all localization remains intact. (For Windows 95, 98, and Me, an ANSI-based Setup program is supplied, which uses the same Unicode installation database.)
Add-on and update installers
Add-on and update installers allow you to install and remove updates and add-on packages separately from the main application’s original installation, while still allowing the main application to be uninstalled together with all its dependants.
Extension DLLs
You can extend the functionality of the installers by creating your own extension DLLs.

Reference:
www.tarma.com/products/tin5/index.htm

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applicationPackaging created the topic: What is Installer VISE?
I have seen here we have list of many installer Application. Though I was not aware of maximu tool. Great place to learn and know about tools.

any body can guide me for getting all this answer?

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applicationPackaging created the topic: What is Advanced Installer?
What is Advanced Installer?

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InstallerGeek created the topic: How does Actual Installer saves your time and creates quality installation pack?
Need a professional software installer? Actual Installer is an ideal choice for you. Why is it so? Let us have a closer look at its features. First of all, the program uses the minimum of time to build a quality single-file multilingual installation package. Seems to be quite impressive, isn’t? Secondly, working with Actual Installer does not require special knowledge of complicated scripts. This benefit of the program helps you to create your setup package without much routine, which is difficult to avoid, when it comes to working with complicated scripts.

A logical consequence of this means that filling in appropriate fields (descriptions) is all you have to do while building a setup file. An evident fact is that these few merits cannot be all advantages, which the developers of Actual Installer have taken care of. Apart from these benefits, a software developer can apply a variety of other features, which are essential for the creation of a quality installation package: custom logos, a License Agreement and ReadMe texts in RTF or TXT formats, shortcut creation, registry/INI-file modifications, system requirements, file associations, ActiveX, Type Library and Font registration, silent installation, uninstallation and much more.

Please, believe that this is not all yet: the program’s interface combines a great deal of eye-candy and functionality, which is enough to impress even the most demanding users. Besides, Actual Installer provides for splendid opportunities for multilingual support: virtually, it means that Readme and License Agreement texts can also be inserted separately in different languages. Additionally, you can protect your program`s setup with a password.

Now it is time to ask one of our customers to say a few words about the program. “Actual Installer, says Robert Molnar II, one of our customers, has an easy to use installation GUI, produces a clean looking installation program, easy Windows registry editing, straight-forward shortcuts, and many constants such as installation path. The greatest feature is the simple effective process of creating a setup program. A great value for the features that come in it! I am a satisfied customer!”

Now let us have a glace at the program’s principle benefits:

* Ease of use. 10 minutes is all you need to create a quality setup package;
* Support for Windows 95, 98, 2000, 2003, XP, Me, NT 4.0 versions;
* Running files and restarting the PC after installation;
* License agreement displayed in the TXT or RTF format;
* Single-file packaging;
* Small package size;
* Excellent compression;
* Intuitive user interface;
* Complete uninstall opportunities;
* Creating shortcuts;
* Registry and INI-file modification;
* Support for Add/Remove Programs applet;
* Support for Uninstall feedback;
* Support for custom installer logo bitmaps;
* Support for silent installation.

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Hi,

I would like to create a single installer package which would support installing of a driver for x64 and x32 platforms. The problem is that if I select Package Type to be Mixed32/64 no matter what I do AI will
always include only 32 bit DIFx files. If I select package type that supports only 64 bit systems proper DIFx dll are taken.

1. Is it possible to make such project in AI
2. What steps needs to be taken to do that
3. How can I set which DIFx (64 or 32 bit) will be used for individual components

Thanks

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InstallerGeek created the topic: Generating 100k Serial Validation keys in Advanced Installer
Hi,

I am presenting compiling an installer using enterprise version. I want to generate 100k serial validation keys. How can I get this done without manually clicking the button to generate the keys. I am not keen on server validation etc

Please help urgently

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applicationPackaging created the topic: Installer Opening with one of our major client for Bangalore Location
Contact Person: pradeep.kantamaneni@flexiworkforce.com

Hi,

This is Pradeep from Flexi Work Force Mgt,Hyderabad.
There is an opening with one of our major client for
Bangalore Location.They are looking for the following
skill set,if you are interested for the position,mode of
employment,please send your resume to my mail ID,
so that i can send it to the client.

Location:Bangalore
Mode:Contract to Hire
Period:6 Months

Req:
Job Description :

· Understanding of Windows Operating system including latest operating systems, security, registry and file system.

· Hands-on experience on installer technology on Windows. Install shield, Innosetup, Install Anywhere, etc

· Hands-on knowledge on Microsoft SQL Server and need to understand SQL Server security and connection mechanisms

· HTML and JavaScript knowledge

· Knowledge in scripting and build processes

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created the topic: Macro exist for Directory location of Installer executable?

I am wondering if there is a macro for the current directory of the Installer.exe file.

My install path is the user’s temp. But I would like to know what Folder the Installer.exe file is in.

I want the extracted files in the user’s temp, but when I start my script I want it to think the working directory is where the Installer.exe file is.

Question is this posiible ?

replied the topic: Re: Macro exist for Directory location of Installer executable?
Useed #exepath# macro.

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created the topic: Embedding Googledesktop into my installer package
Hi.. I am using create install free for setting up .gg(which run on google desktop) files.
I want to create a installer package using “Create install free” to install google desktop on user’s system. Can any one help me out how to do it..

applicationPackaging replied the topic: Re: Embedding Googledesktop into my installer package
Unfortunately, I don’t know what actions are required for installing google desktop files.

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created the topic: Actual Installer 3.2 is released! What’s new?
Actual Installer is an easy-to-use software installer for Windows

[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes

Version 3.2 (current release) – August 04, 2009
Windows 7 compatibility
Added:
– Display progress bar during the uninstall process;
– User Variables (ability to read Registry values);
– Option: Require an Active Internet Connection;
– Option: Close Running Application;
– Option: Uninstall old version before installation;
– Option for ActiveX: Do not unregister during uninstallation;
– Option: Add all ActiveX;
– Setup languages: Czech, Hungarian, Turkish;
– Silent setup building parameter;
– New variable: ;
– New Bitmaps;

Fixed:
– Critical error when extracting files (during installing setup files with deep directory structures, the installation takes a very long time);
– Critical error with digitally signing setup files;
– Upgrade method;
– Error with detecting the Main Executable;
– Error with a lot Serial Numbers items;
– I/O Error 32 during the Build Setup process;
– Error with Auto Detect Language option;
– Improved the adding files to the project;

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