InstallBuilder for Windows

New in InstallBuilder 8

• Built-In Debugger - The new InstallBuilder debugger makes it easier to identify and correct issues during the development process. It allows you to view and interactively edit installer variables at runtime, provides step-by-step execution to test that specific parts of the installer are functioning properly. It allows recovering from unexpected errors during the installation process and more.
• Enhanced Component Functionality - Expanded component functionality now provides support for downloadable components and component groups, including support for subcomponents. Downloadable components will be downloaded at runtime only if the user chooses to install them, reducing the size of installer downloads. The new component system allows you to group individual components and build feature sets that will be displayed in a tree structure ("subcomponents".) It also allows users to add and remove specific components from existing installations.
• Dynamic Parameter Support - Enhanced parameter support makes it possible to create dynamic pages that will be automatically reconfigured based on a user's input. This allows you to create a more customized and streamlined installation experience.
• Expanded Documentation - Over 350 pages of documentation are now available for InstallBuilder. The documentation not only explains every feature of InstallBuilder, but also provides sample code for a wide variety of installer functions, such as bundling a Java runtime, detecting pre-requisites on the system, offering basic and advanced installation modes and more.

BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows Main Features
BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows will allow you to create fast, professional, truly native install packages for your software. BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows advanced functionality includes: Auto Update, No external Dependencies, Multiple Installation Modes, RPM Integration, Startup failure detection, Multiple Language Support and many more. BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows License includes 1 Year of Support and major and minor upgrades.

InstallBuilder 7 for Windows helps reducing Development Time
InstallBuilder 7 for Windows includes an easy to learn, easy to use GUI development environment. Design, build and test installers with the click of a button. For advanced users, a friendly XML project format supports source control integration, collaborative development and customizing projects both by hand and using external scripts. A command line interface allows you to automate and integrate the building process. QuickBuild functionality allows you to update installers in a few seconds, without having to repack the entire application. InstallBuilder 7 for Windows also includes Built-in Actions. Built-in actions make it easy to implement commonly required installation functionality in a crossplatform manner. Add actions to your installer for changing file permissions and ownership, substituting text in a file, adding environment variables, adding directories to the path, creating symbolic links, changing the Windows registry, launching external scripts and so on in just a few clicks.

InstallBuilder 7 for Windows Auto-Update Functionality
InstallBuilder 7 for Windows includes an automatic update feature that enables you to deliver updates directly to your users. By providing regular updates to users, you'll keep them running your best available version, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and reduced support costs.

InstallBuilder 7 for Windows helps producing smaller, faster installers
BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows installers are optimized in size and speed and do not require a self-extraction step. This reduces download, startup and installation time. Built-in LZMA support provides great compression ratios to further reduce the size of installers. BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows are native executables with no external dependencies and minimal overhead.

Deploy in Any Environment
InstallBuilder 7 for Windows includes several GUI modes with native look-and-feel for installation in a variety of desktop environments, a text-based installation mode for console-based and remote installations, and a silent/unattended install mode which can be used for integration in shell scripts for automated deployment. BitRock installers also provide native look and feel and desktop integration for Windows and install applications written in any language.

RPM Integration
BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows can register your software with the RPM package database, combining ease of use with the powerful RPM package management system.

Multiple Language Support
InstallBuilder 7 for Windows supports a variety of installation languages, including English, German, Japanese, Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Traditional Chinese, Dutch, Polish, Valencian, Catalan, Estonian, Slovenian, Romanian, Hungarian, Russian and Welsh. You can specify a default language or let the user decide.

BitRock InstallBuilder 7 for Windows Other Features

• Include Your Branding: Present a professional image by re-branding InstallBuilder with your own graphics and custom screens
• Advanced Configuration Options: Ask the user for multiple inputs on one screen to streamline the installation process
• Rollback Functionality: By default, BitRock installers perform a backup of all the files overwritten during installation, so if an error occurs, the system can be automatically recovered to its previous state.
• Uninstall Functionality: An uninstall program is created as part of every installation, allowing users to easily uninstall the software. As with the installer, it can be run in a variety of modes. On Windows, uninstall functionality can also be accessed from the Add/Remove Programs entry in the Control Panel.

All license purchases also include 1 year of support and major and minor upgrades. After the first year, support and upgrade access may be renewed.