SharpSetup 1.4 Released

Kraków, Poland, February 15, 2011 --(PR.com)-- SharpSetup - the most flexible .NET-based installer creation tool - has just hit its 1.4 release. SharpSetup allows software developers to create professional multilingual setup packages using well established tools and technologies such as Visual Studio 2008/2010, Windows Installer XML toolset and general purpose third-generation programming languages: C# and C++. SharpSetup aims to maximise developer's productivity by making the installer development process as close as possible to the process of creating a typical desktop application. With SharpSetup developers can easily create installers with sophisticated graphical user interfaces using state-of-the-art dialog/control designer and wealth of pre-built and custom components.

Version 1.4, besides numerous bug fixes, adds significant improvements in the area of basic prerequisites checking. Now, with just a few lines of C++ code it is possible to check for and install .NET Framework or Windows Installer packages. From a setup developer's point of view installation of those prerequisites is equally simple regardless of whether the needed files are available locally, on external disk (CD/DVD) or have to be downloaded from the vendor's website. Following SharpSetup's flexibility principles this mechanism can be conveniently extended by writing additional file providers (eg. FTP file provider).

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