Advanced Installer Professional full changelog

· .NET Framework launch conditions were not converted correctly for older projects
· Updater scheduled task was not deleted during uninstall
· Current feature displayed in ribbon was not reset when opening a different project
· UI language options in Translations page were not saved correctly

New features in this release:
· Windows 8 Consumer Preview support
· Silverlight applications support
· Import Visual Studio 11 projects
· Visual Studio 11 integration
· Adaptive fonts and text styles for enhanced UI
· Redesigned Media view
· NET Framework 4.5 predefined launch condition and prerequisite
· IIS 8.0 predefined launch condition
· Internet Explorer 10 predefined launch condition and search
· MySQL Server 5.5 predefined prerequisite
· SQL Server 2012 Express predefined launch condition and prerequisite
· Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 predefined prerequisite

Enhancements to existing features:
· Added Run as Administrator option for quot;Launch file or open URLquot; custom action
· Improved upgrade behavior for multiple instances
· Added text styles support for hyperlink controls in enhanced UI
· Automatically remove sequence when deleting a custom action
· Automatically add stop slideshow event when using custom stop trigger
· Improved user account picker

Bug fixes:
· A new control was lost after spawning a new dialog from it
· Visual Studio application import did not allow skipping unsupported projects
· Chained package ProductCode was not updated in Table Editor after changing the source
· Command line parameters were not used correctly by single instance Java Products
· Error when using product picker in Upgrades page on a machine with corrupted Windows Installer data
· Log on as a service policy could not be set for domain accounts
· Online license check did not work when using the Unicode updater
· Action Data sequence order was broken when using drag and drop to move custom actions
· Error when retrieving default component for Internet Shortcut

New features in this release:
· Maintenance operations for feature-based prerequisites
· Support for always-installing prerequisites
· Microsoft Silverlight 5 predefined prerequisite
· Microsoft Games for Windows - LIVE predefined prerequisite
· NVIDIA PhysX predefined prerequisite
· Visual Studio Tools for Office 3.0 SP1 predefined prerequisite
· Action Data for UI event Custom Actions
· Install, uninstall and maintenance custom action predefined conditions
· Automatically detect and add JAR file dependencies to project

Enhancements to existing features:
· Prerequisites registered with Advanced Installer are now displayed in a separate group
· DoAction control event support for “Call a function from a standard DLL” custom action
· Conditional serial number validation
· Improved package execution level options
· Insert feature-based prerequisite files in MSI when EXE bootstrapper is disabled
· Extended folder redirection support when using InstallTypeDlg dialog

· Fixed digital signing certificate analysis when using Advanced Installer signing tool

· Switched to external digital signature tools (if installed) as default primary choice to avoid reported issues with internal tool
· Fixed crash when changing a prerequisite type to feature-based
· Prerequisite language list was not loaded correctly
· Chained package properties were not always saved

New features:
· ThinApp Virtualization support
· Internal Digital Signature Tool
· Single-click predefined prerequisites
· Unified Prerequisites view includes: pre&post-install, chained and feature-based
· UltiDev Web Server predefined prerequisite

Enhancements to existing features:
· Resume installation after a reboot triggered by a feature-based prerequisite
· Progress dialog when the bootstrapper prepares large packages
· Dialog sharing for multiple chains by using Add Dialog feature
· System store certificate browsing for digital signature
· Improved reference detection when deleting a folder used by a file
· License file browsing when registering Advanced Installer by email
· Moved Product IDs information in Product Details page
· Added a valid default URL in launch application page for Tomcat project wizard
· Automatically trim spaces for service account information
· Added display language selection dialog option in new project wizard

Bug fixes:
· File registration did not work on Windows XP
· Error when unchecking quot;Register Product with Windows Installerquot; option
· Crash when building a project with dialog Init events that did not have arguments
· Crash when saving a custom template on a clean machine
· Control conditions for text labels were deleted when upgrading the project
· URL location did not work for HTML Host controls
· Crash when double-clicking an XML file generated by Software Identification Tool
· Floating licenses with non-ASCII charactes were not recognized
· Updater uninstall custom action did not work on Windows 95
· quot;InstallLanguagequot; registry entry corrupted installer information on Windows Vista x64
· Uninstall string was incorrect when using per-user installs on Windows 7
· Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable x64 prerequisite used incorrect detection criteria
· Install Visual Studio extension only when IDE is found on the machine

New features:
· Fast installation support
· Protect your installers using AES encryption
· Left menu filter
· Set-up distribution types (online/DVD, EXE/MSI etc.) with a single mouse click
· Unicode updater for better OS integration
· Unicode Java products
· License Agreement dialog wizard
· Display install log when encountering a fatal error
· Import Internet shortcut files
· Microsoft VSTO 2010 Runtime x64 predefined prerequisite
· Visual C++ 2010 SP1 Redistributable predefined prerequisite
· Automatic fix for TypeLib table usage best practice error
· Automatic fix for best practice rule which checks if actions added in InstallUISequence are also present in InstallExecuteSequence
· Automatic fix for best practice rule which checks if all dialog controls use public properties

Enhancements to existing features:
· Best practice rules warning for private properties in Control table
· Best practice rules warning for UI properties which don't have a default value
· Enhanced update detecti

New features in this release:
· User Interface refresh for a modern, Windows 7 look and feel
· SharePoint feature editor
· Any CPU (32/64-bit) support for Java Launcher
· Generate multiple instances GUID command line option

Enhancements to existing features:
· Vital custom action information can no longer be modified for predefined actions
· Added filter in property picker
· Chained package command line support for maintenance
· Automatically detect Product Version when adding an update
· Added support for selecting a specific instance for multiple instance packages
· Automatically use active Internet connection launch condition when using server-side serial number validation

Bug fixes:
· Some command line interface errors used message boxes
· Software launch conditions were not refreshed when use the launch condition wizard
· Prerequisite feature was not removed when deleting a repository prerequisite
· Office 2007 launch conditions were not evaluated correctly for Office 2010 x64