ANN: InstallAWARE 3 for Windows Installer (as seen on ZiffDavis DevSource!)

InstallAware has been designed from the ground up to meet today's setup
authoring needs. It provides a perfect fusion of Windows Installer, Web
Deployment, and Scripting technologies. Developers can author Windows
Installer setups in complete isolation from all aspects of MSI tables,
databases, sequences, and so on. They just create a conditional setup
script, and at build time, InstallAware magically converts that script into
a legal, logo-certifiable MSI database. Moreover, developers can break up
their setups into multiple online and offline parts, removing rarely used
application features and runtimes from the main setup executable, but still
making sure that the essential application data is contained within the main
setup executable. With other products, its all or never web deployment, with
no choice on which features go where.



Other unique InstallAware features are: Flash/HTML billboards for
interactive progress dialogs, a choice of 10 (ten) setup themes, a
sophisticated dialog editor with a rich set of controls, superior
compression which does wonders in eliminating the shared overhead in
executable files, and also tightly compresses runtimes (the entire .NET
runtime gets reduced to 11MB, compared to the regular 23MB), and an
innovative two-way linked IDE which has a visual view that generates the
installation script automatically, along with the code view that provides
complete access to the heart of the installation.



What developers love about InstallAware is that it lets them break through
the confines of Windows Installer, and author a setup script the intelligent
way - they spend time coding their setup logic, instead of worrying about
populating MSI database tables; but the end result is always a logo
compliant Windows Installer installation.



Read more about InstallAware here:
http://www.devsource.ziffdavis.com/...,1738295,00.asp

Compare InstallAware with other leading installation tools here:

http://www.installaware.com/architect/iacompare.htm

Download a free 30-day fully functional InstallAware trial here:

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