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Wise for Windows Installer

Wise for Windows Installer

Professional developers rely on Wise for Windows Installer to quickly and easily create reliable .MSI installations using the latest Microsoft technologies. With integrated development options, cutting-edge capabilities for data-driven Web application installations and installation management features, you can be assured your installations won't just work on your machine-they will work in your production environment, too.

Deploy Powerful Data-Driven Web Applications

Move your data-driven Web applications from development to the production environment with a completely seamless, automated process that eliminates time-consuming tasks previously required for configuring Web-based applications.

  • Customize the installation to prompt the administrator for variables that configure the application during installation
  • Create multiple Web sites from one installation, including new root Web sites and creating and configuring Virtual Directories.
  • Install multiple instances of a Web site, such as Web farms, from one installation
  • Edit XML files, such as web.config, with Dynamic Content Editor
  • Create dialogs that prompt the administrator for SQL connection strings, .MSI properties or other SQL values with the Custom Property Dialog wizard
  • Force file reinstallation to install updates on an existing Web application

Deploy Reliable Installations in Complex Environments

Wise for Windows Installer Enterprise Edition offers collaboration, standardization and better testing, improving application quality in even the most complex production environments. Now you can easily understand the impact your application has on the production environment, ultimately decreasing help desk calls, the need for patches and end-user downtime. What do you gain from installation management?

  • Understand how the application will behave in the production environment
  • Analyze how modifying the components and requirements of one application impacts others
  • Eliminate resource conflicts between applications before release
  • Establish and maintain installation standards to ensure error-free deployments
  • Reduce costs through fewer elevated support calls and patches
  • Share common resources such as application information, files and related components

The Best Way to Author Desktop Applications

Authoring traditional desktop and laptop installations is nearly effortless with Wise for Windows Installer.

  • Take advantage of Installation Expert, the easy-to-use interface that walks you through building installations
  • Edit .MSI installations in a script-based format
  • Choose from pre-built templates that can be customized with your own graphics and text
  • Supports all current technologies, including the Microsoft .NET Framework and MTS/COM+

Simplify Server Installations

No other product offers such comprehensive, exclusive support for creating server-based application installations. No more writing documents to help end-users try to manually configure servers. No more writing extensive code to handle complex interaction with the end user environment.

  • Create a fully-functional server installation in minutes
  • Add and manage users
  • Configure the Microsoft SQL Server
  • Take advantage of advanced support for IIS