• Support for Windows 7. Visual Installer 2010 has been adapted to the new Windows 7 operating system. Both the editor and the created installation programs supports Windows 7.

• Support for 64 bits. The sale of 64-bit computers, and 64-bit Windows, are expected to increase sharply in the coming years. Visual Installer 2010 has been adapted for use in 64-bit Windows (Windows XP / Vista / 7).

• Code signing of setup program. Important installation files are now code-signed and you can also sign your own installations if you have a certificate. By code-signing your installation package your user's will not get any warning boxes when installations are downloaded from the Internet. Code signed setup programs can also be more easy installed in Windows 7 systems that has AppLocker activated. Read more here.

• Many stylish ready-to-use images for setup dialog boxes are included now and you can very easy choose one of them to your dialog boxes. You can also choose your own images to the dialog boxes. Read more here.

• The script editor (the editor where you type script commands) shows now commands and variables with different colors (so-called syntax color handling). In this way you will get a better overview of the commands and variables you use in script lines. The script editor also supports IntelliSense (using the same principle as in the Visual Studio editor), which means you can get a list of possible commands and variables as you type, and you can quickly and easily choose a command or a variable. Read more here. (Professional)

• The Registry and INI files tabs also handle syntax coloring and IntelliSense as described above. Read more here.

• You can now preview the settings you entered in the Registry tab. Your keys and values are displayed in a graphical tree, in the same way as in the Windows Registry editor. Read more here.

• Support for. NET Framework 3.5. If you develop applications that require. NET 3.5, you can let Visual Installer 2010 check that the computer really has. NET 3.5 installed before you start installing your programs.

• New features for managing license keys. For example auto-formatting of license keys when they are entered (the hyphen is automatically inserted). You can also specify a default key that is displayed as a suggestion in the dialog box for the license key. Very useful when you distribute evaluation versions etc.

• New conditions in the script language that now handles Windows 7. For example IF OS = Win7 which executes the script row(s) only if the operating system is Windows 7. (Professional)

• New conditions in the script language that supports. NET, for example: IF NET = 2.0 which executes the script row(s) only if .NET Framework 2.0 is installed.  (Professional)

• New script command: UNINSTALL_RENAME_LOGFILE. If you install multiple installations to the same folder on the hardisk this script command is useful if you want to uninstall the installed files via separate uninstall programs. The uninstaller included in Visual Installer uses this log file to determine which files to uninstall. (Professional)

• New variable: %MYPICTURES. Returns the path to the image folder in Windows. This variable can be used when installing pictures to user's harddisks.

• The end user can now install on a USB flash drive. Usage of USB storage is increasingly common, and besides that you can distribute your application via USB sticks, you can now also let your end users install their files to a USB flash drive. This is an option that can be turned on / off in Visual Installer.

• Easier to find previous projects. The six most recent use projects are displayed in a submenu in the File menu.

• A user's guide in PDF format is included. A navigation tree and hyperlinks in the text makes it's easy to navigate among the pages in the manual. You can preview the user's guide by clicking here.

• An installation can, after it has been created, be uploaded automatically to a server on the Internet. If you often upload your installations to Internet sites, this new feature will be helpful for you. Read more here. (Professional)

• An new installation dialog box has been added. This dialog box asks the user if he/she wants to create an additional shortcut (icon) on the desktop, the Start menu or Programs menu root level. Read more here.

• You can now copy items from one file list to another in a simple way via the Windows Clipboard. If you for example want to add a file to three file lists you can first add the file to the first file list, after that you select the file and copy it to the another file lists via Windows Clipboard. All the settings that belongs to a file are included.

• Support for Visual Basic 2008.

• Can now detect. NET Framework 3.0.

• The script language can now handle IF conditions. For example, different lines of scripts can be run in different versions of Windows. (Professional)

• Five new script commands have been added. Their names are: (Professional)
  XDIREXISTS: checks if a folder exists
  XNOTDIREXISTS: checks if a folder does not exist
  REG_KEYEXISTS: checks if a key in the registry exists
  REG_KEYNOTEXISTS: checks if a key in the registry does not exist
  MSGBOX: show an information box

• New variable: %DESKTOPDIR. Returns the folder path to the user's desktop in Windows.

• Updated support for AutoCAD profiles. Visual Installer handles now also AutoCAD 2007, 2008 and 2009.

Adaptions to Windows Vista:

• The management of shortcuts (icons) did not always work in Windows Vista when Visual Installer 2006 or earlier were used. No shortcuts were created. This is because the logic for creating shortcuts changed in Windows Vista. Visual Installer 2007 has been updated so it can create shortcuts in Windows Vista without any problems.

• All important installation files are now distributed manifest files so the files run with the required privileges in Windows Vista.

• Visual Installer 2007 handles the Windows Resource Protection (WRP) system in Windows Vista in a proper way.

• If the VirtualStore management was turned off in Windows Vista, some functions in the Visual Installer 2006 editor (or older) do not worked very well. The reason for this was that Visual Installer does not had write access privileges to certain folders (e.g. the Program Files folder) in Windows Vista. Visual Installer 2007 now uses other folders and will work also if the VirtualStore management is turned off in Windows Vista.

• A Windows Vista option has been added to the Operating system tab in the Setup options dialog box. This option can be used to prevent installations that are specific to Windows Vista to be run on older Windows.

• Some visual changes has been done to the editor to better interact with the new graphical environment of Windows Vista. And the dialog boxes in the setup program uses a design typical to Windows Vista when run in this operating system.

• The help documentation is now compatible with Windows Vista. The HTML format is used for the help.

Adaptions to Microsoft Office 2007:

• Installation of add-ins can now be made for Microsoft Excel 2007 and Microsoft PowerPoint 2007.

• The variables specific to Microsoft Office supports now Microsoft Office 2007. For example the variables that are used when templates are installed.

Other news:

• You can now specify a minimum operating system for specific files in the file list. You can for example specify that some files will only be installed in Windows Vista, but not in Windows XP or older.

• The script language has been extended with a new command: CMD. This command gives access to all commands in the Windows command prompt directly from Visual Installer. (Professional)

• Visual Installer 2007 has been adapted to function properly when Internet Explorer 7.0 is installed in a computer. In a computer with Internet Explorer 7.0 installed the text handling works in different way which affected text that was placed on the setup screen. Visual Installer 2007 has been updated to handle this so the text is displayed as expected.