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It is user-friendly and intuitive, with a wide range of features and capabilities that make it easy to create professional-grade installation packages(EXE, MSI, MSIX, etc.). Some of its key features include support for a wide range of platforms and formats, integration with popular development tools and environments, and the ability to create customizable and visually appealing installers.
Advanced Installer is available in four editions: Freeware, Professional, Enterprise and Architect. The Freeware edition is free to use for both commercial and non-commercial purposes. The Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions have a trial period during which they can only be used for evaluation purposes. After this trial period, you must register the product or stop using it altogether.
The Fire Detection and Alarm Advanced Installer is a two day course intended to provide technicians with the knowledge and skills necessary to undertake and complete the installation work relating to FD&A systems, including the necessary testing that needs to be completed.
The course works through the responsibilities of the installer, explaining what information should be provided in the system specification, including the scope of works, at the outset of an installation. Later in the course we also look at the permit to work, risk assessment and method statement process.
We will re-cap system categories for BS 5839-1, as well as the system categories & grades of system for BS 5839-6. The course then covers the different system technologies available, component compatibility, circuit configurations for reliability & integrity, design requirements for detector spacing and mounting heights, how to approach pitch ceilings, vertical flue like structures, ceiling voids & wall mounted detectors etc.
As you would expect, the installation course also covers cabling & installation practices, electrical safety & fire stopping. Towards the end of the course, we will also touch on the requirements of the construction design & management regulations, the building regulations, fault finding, inspection & testing and the all-important requirements for documentation.
For courses that take place within the classroom environment, a hard copy of the course notes will be provided at the start of the course. For courses taking place on-line, delegates will have access to the course notes digitally. Following completion of the online course delegates will be contacted and have the option to receive a hard copy of the course book in the post. Details on how to access the digital course book will be provided within the course invitation e-mail. Delegates will need to set up access to the digital course book prior to the start of the course.
For any courses held online, the examination will also be online. For details about the online examination process, please visit the following links, FIA online examinations for its industry-leading qualifications and How to take an FIA online Qualification exam.
The successful completion of this course & the exam, could be your next or final step towards the overall Advanced Qualification, or alternatively this could lead to an additional advanced qualification for those that have already achieved the overall qualification.
Upon completion of the exam, delegates will get an instant result. The next step for successful delegates is very much dependant on individual circumstances with regards to your position on the qualification pathway.
Overall completion of the Advanced qualification also requires completion of two mandatory units covering Environmental requirements for field technicians and Health and Safety requirements for field technicians. For further information on these courses, please follow the links give below:
However, in many cases you may already have an installer definition created with a 3rd party tool. Popular authoring tools, like Advanced Installer, InstallShield or Wix, are able to generate a MSIX package out from an installer project, making easier to reuse the work you may already have done to generate MSI installers in the past. Additionally, thanks to these tools, you have the opportunity to use the same project to generate at the same time a MSI and a MSIX, helping you to support customers who might not have migrated yet to Windows 10 and who are unable to use MSIX Core (for example, because it's a consumer application).
What about enabling a CI/CD pipeline in this scenario? In this blog post we're going to see an example on how to achieve this task with Advanced Installer. Why did I choose this product? Well, other than because it's a really good software, the Advanced Installer team has created a task for Azure DevOps which is able to build an Advanced Installer project stored on the repository. And, most of all, the task is able to download the most recent version of Advanced Installer and install it on the machine without requiring any user intervention. This means that we are not forced to create a self-hosted agent where to manually install the tool, but we can leverage the built-in agents provided by Azure DevOps.
As a starting point, I will use a simple Windows Forms application called MyEmployees, which I have used also in other posts. However, the main difference is that, this time, the solution doesn't have a Windows Application Packaging Project. We're going to use Advanced Installer to create a MSIX package, together with a MSI. In a real scenario probably you already have the setup created with Advanced Installer but, to understand better how it works, let's create a new one.
First you need to download and install the latest Advanced Installer version. It's a paid product, but it offers a 30 days trial and also a free tier. Once you have launched it, you will find in the Templates section one called Visual Studio Application, which is able to connect directly to a Visual Studio solution, like in our case.
First you will be asked the name and the publisher of your application, followed by the distribution type. For the moment choose MSI setup file. We're going to add the MSIX definition later. In the next step you will be asked where to save the project, using a file with .aip extension. You will need to add this file in a folder of your project, since we'll need to commit it to our repository, in order to use the Azure DevOps task. In my case, I've created a folder called Projects inside the solution. The project output folder will be automatically changed to point to the same location, but I suggest you to choose a different one, outside the repository. This folder, in fact, will contain the various artifacts (like the generated MSI or MSIX package) and we don't want to include them in the source code.
As next step, you must choose the Visual Studio solution which contains your project. In my case, I've chosen the MyEmployees.sln file. Advanced Installer will analyze the solution and it will ask you which configurations you want to import. Feel free to choose the ones that make sense for your project. In my case, for example, I want to distribute only the 64 bit version, built in Release mode:
In the next step you will be asked to select which files, among the ones that are created as build output, belong to the application and must be included in the installer. The section will be split in two categories:
In my case, I'm going to include all the output files, plus the reference files coming from NuGet, like JSON.net or System.Data.SQLite. I don't need to include the references related to the .NET Framework, since they are already installed on the machine.
In the next step, you will need to select the main executable of your application. Advanced Installer should be able to automatically detect it, especially if it's a scenario like mine where the application is composed by a single executable. This information will be used to configure the shortcuts on the desktop and/or the Start Menu.
All the other steps are optional and apply mostly to the MSI setup: you can choose if you want to launch the application after having it installed; you can customize the UI of the installer; you can choose the languages you support; you can add a license agreement that will be displayed during the setup. After you have finished the wizard, Advanced Installer will bring you to the main UI of the application, where you can further customize the project. The tool offers tons of options: you can add support to services or custom actions, you can customize the manifest for the MSIX version, etc.
We're going to keep it simple, so we won't add any special configuration. However, there's a setting that is very important. Move to the Files and Folders section, which displays what and where the installer will copy on the user's machine. You will see a folder called Application folder, which is the location where the files which compose the application will be copied. However, you might see that not all the files are properly included.
Additionally, you will notice that if you update the source code of your application and you produce a new build, it won't be automatically picked up. To solve this problem we need to setup a sync between the Visual Studio project and the Advanced Installer project, so that during the CI pipeline we can produce a MSI / MSIX which reflects the most recent version.
To achieve this goal we must enable the sync feature. Right click on the Application Folder in the tree and choose Properties. Then move to the Synchronize tab and click on Synchronize content with folder from disk. As source folder, you must specify the output of the build in the bin folder of your Visual Studio project. For example, since in my case I'm compiling the application in Release mode, I'm picking up the MyEmployees\bin\Release folder. Once you press Ok, you will be asked if you want to remove the files which are already included. Press Yes. You will notice now that all the files are correctly included:
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