Software by InstallAware Software Corporation:

InstallAware is first to market with an IDE targeting Microsoft's open source WiX platform. WiX is used internally by Microsoft teams to build world-class installers such as Microsoft Office. Until today, WiX remained hard to use, as it did not provide a GUI but only command line tools. Now with the new WiXAware IDE by InstallAware, you too can use the same technology that Microsoft teams internally use to build software installers.

InstallAware creates Windows Installer MSI setups with easy MSIcode scripting. Instead of populating MSI databases to build your setup, or being stuck with the limitations of visual designers, use the intuitive MSIcode scripting environment to build your MSI installers. InstallAware will automatically convert your conditionally flowing MSIcode script into a legal Windows Installer MSI database at build time.

Archives behave like folders in Explorer! Browse, copy files from, and add files to archives just like any regular folder. The plug-in based product can directly compress RAR, ACE, SIT, 7ZIP, and extract many more using a single application. The product also contains 4 stand-alone archive applications - command line, wizards, WinZip style, and a professional archive studio. Email attachments you send with Outlook are automatically compressed.

Pack Any Digital Content: * documents * music * software * installations Secure: * code-sign packages for verifying authenticity * protect packages with passwords Flexible: * display license agreements * start an installer, or open any file in package * very tight compression - advanced CAB-LZX algorithm

The InstallAware MSI installer builds sophisticated, visually appealing setups with support for the latest technologies, including IIS, Microsoft/Oracle/MySQL database servers, Web Updates, Partial Web Deployment, DIFx Driver installs, Vista, 64bit, and one-click installation of complex application runtimes like Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 with Service Pack 1. Setups are compressed up to 67% smaller than their MSI installer counterparts.

InstallAware builds Windows Installer MSI setups with completely customizable user interfaces and unique dialog controls. Build non-rectangular or transparent wizards, display bitmap buttons, standard or custom animations, create tabbed dialogs like the new Office 12 installer. Insert native file/folder browsers just like those in Windows Explorer. Display interactive Flash and/or HTML progress billboards to entertain your users while installing!

Splitting Features: * break massive files into smaller, transportable pieces * automatically backup data onto removable disks * split files into pre-determined pieces * name split pieces any way you like * use split profiles to store frequent split settings Uniting Features: * use self uniting exe technology to unite split pieces anywhere * bind self uniting exe to any piece or keep independent

InstallAware for Windows Installer can import existing MSI setup packages and let you customize their behavior. You may also import non-MSI setups using the integrated PackageAware tool which works by monitoring the changes a setup makes to the system. Using the redistributable automation interface, you may remotely build your setups over web pages, or directly on end-user machine's at run-time.

The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your InstallShield setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.

The InstallAware Setup Squeezer intelligently unpacks your Windows Installer setups, and then recompresses them using InstallAware's industry leading compression technology. Setup Squeezer is a fully automated, point-and-click wizard, which produces 15%-50% size savings on your setup packages. All this happens with you converting your setup projects - you can keep them in their own native format, and still benefit from InstallAware's compression.