InstallAware Software Corporation

Candice Jones, 415-839-7445

fax: 415-358-4094

candicej@installaware.com

http://www.installaware.com/

InstallAware Software Corporation has released InstallAware 8, a setup authoring tool for ISVs and enterprises deploying products, patches, and web updates. InstallAware 8 creates Windows Installer setup packages with support for the latest technologies, including Windows Installer 4.5, Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, Microsoft SQL Server Express 2005 Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2008, and 64 bit operating systems.

InstallAware 8 is the first InstallAware version to feature Visual Studio integration. Users of Visual Studio versions 2003, 2005, and 2008 may now access InstallAware functionality within their native environment; automatically creating and building setup projects without ever leaving the Visual Studio IDE. Setup projects created by InstallAware 8's new Visual Studio Add-In may of course be further edited inside the main InstallAware IDE, while continuing to be seamlessly refreshed by the Add-In as projects are inserted to or removed from the Visual Studio solution.

The InstallAware IDE itself has been fortified with major enhancements. "We've exposed even more of InstallAware's core functionality, already available in the MSIcode script, on our IDE's visual design surfaces," says Agustin K-ballo Berge, Vice President of Research and Development at InstallAware. "Of course, the underlying MSIcode script which the visual designers emit remains fully accessible - making InstallAware a true visual setup development tool." For instance, the IDE's "Assemblies" design view now sports four new options for one-click .NET assembly registration, native image generation, installer class execution, and forced removal of assemblies from the GAC.

InstallAware 8 keeps developers up to date with Microsoft's constantly evolving technologies. Native IIS 7 support makes it a snap to create websites, virtual folders, and application pools on Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista without IIS 6 metabase compatibility. A single check-box in the Run Programs window is all it takes to "de-elevate" applications when User Account Control is enabled, letting freshly installed software start in a user context instead of an administrator context. The monolithic Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5 runtime has been granularized into stand-alone runtimes for .NET 2 SP1, .NET 3 SP1, and .NET 3.5 - offering the ultimate flexibility for developers in choosing exactly the technologies they require when publishing their applications - and saving them valuable space in their product install.