Excelsior Delivery is a tool to create professional and compact installers for Windows applications with minimum efforts. Excelsior Delivery is optimized to be as easy to use as possible.
It provides a wizard-style interface that guides you through the packaging process. The wizard suggests a rich set of reasonable default parameter values and requires only a few items to be filled in manually. In the best case scenario you will need just two mouse clicks to create an installation package without running packaging wizard at all.
v2.2 [Nov 21, 2011]
The Windows Installer XML (WiX) is a toolset that builds Windows installation packages from XML source code. WiX is an open source project, originally developed by Microsoft and maintained by Rob Mensching.
Since this version, Excelsior Delivery can export your project as a set of XML source code for building your installer with WiX, and invoke the WiX tools for you.
It is possible to use Excelsior Delivery as a GUI wizard for WiX or you may use this feature to migrate your project to WiX-based setup authoring tool if necessary.
Bugs fixed:
- Icon and arguments were ignored for Desktop shortcuts in NSIS scripts
- A project saved with newline symbols in Company Name could not be opened again.
- Installation packages with UNC pathnames could not be created.
- The maximum length of a package file path could not exceed MAX_PATH (260 characters).
- NSIS scripts with branding images could not be compiled outside of Excelsior Installer/Delivery.
- Integration with Windows Explorer did not work properly on 64-bit Windows.
- Excelsior Uninstaller did not show help page with its command line options.
- Image files in png format now can be chosen for splash screen.
