Download Advanced Installer 22.8

New Features
- Automatic file formatting for EULA
- content, when using a dark theme

Enhancements
- Redesigned the custom actions organization, for easier understanding and troubleshooting
- Making the prerequisite command line options more intuitive for each UI stage
- The SBOM report is now included within the setup package, preventing file tampering and simplifying redistribution
- Added predefined launch conditions for VC++ runtimes
- Update .NET prerequisites to the latest version, 8.0.17 and 9.0.6
- Updated Trusted Signing tools detection and installation methods
- Support editing MSIX packages containing fixups with empty config files
- Support editing MSIX packages wherefixups contain ".dll" extension in their name
- Support editing MSIX packages with empty registry hives
- Improve resource synchronization for projects using pre-build events
- Option to set metadata for Comments and LegalTrademark
- PowerShell automation support for setting EXE metadata
- PowerShell automation support for configuring a custom sign tool
- Improved the certification validation methods
- Advanced Installer integration with the Windows Defender Exclusion engine - no more blocked builds due to incorrect false-positive flagging
- Update TargetFramework to NET 9.0 for our predefined custom action template
- Fixed the Visual Studio extension detection on x86 machines
- Improved the parsing of XML manifests for greater package compatibility

Fixed Bugs
- Crash when setting the Surface theme as current after visiting the Custom Actions view
- The "Inherit used theme" option made the installer unresponsive
- A .NET custom action was hanging when logging
- Updated the bootstrapper file costing process, to better support property-based folders
- The COM interface was not correctly checking a floating license
- Reboot prompt triggered with UI during a silent major upgrade installation
- Adding Eula in a Simple project accidentally changed the build type to EXE
- Error handling during file costing, for packages with Enhanced UI
- A UI crash occurred when trying to load certain project settings, no data was corrupted
- The Move Folder custom action was leaving an empty folder in the source location
- Launch conditions messages were blocking a silent installation when the option "Limit to basic user interface" was enabled and a prerequisite was included
- A UI error message was blocking a silent installation if a prerequisite's URL is inaccessible
- Fixed the edit path control layout
- Fixed the default command line options set for chained packages
- InstallTypeDlg was not automatically added when changing the installation type