Upgrading to InstallMate 11
Upgrading to InstallMate 11 from InstallMate 9 is simply a matter of opening your InstallMate 9.x project in the new InstallMate 11 Builder. The project will be automatically converted to the new edition and saved with a new file extension; your previous InstallMate 9 project file remains unchanged.
If you need to upgrade a project from InstallMate 7 or earlier, you must go via InstallMate 9. If necessary you can use the trial edition of InstallMate 9 to accomplish this.
What's new in InstallMate 11
InstallMate 11 is an updated successor to InstallMate 9. The most important changes in InstallMate 11 compared to InstallMate 9 are:
- Support for ARM AArch64 (arm64) editions of Windows.
- Support for the latest .Net prerequisites and Microsoft C/C++ runtimes.
- Improved New Project wizard that prepares a ready-to-install project
- Dozens of detail improvements and corrections.
- Modest modernisation of the user interface.
- Modernisation of the internal code base, with updates to the latest C and C++ compilers, improved code generation, and additional security checks (not that we experienced security problems with the old code, but better safe than sorry).
- Removal of obsolete features such as the import of Visual Basic projects.
- Removal of project conversion from InstallMate 7 and earlier. InstallMate 11 reads InstallMate 9 projects without problem, but if you have InstallMate 7 or earlier projects, then you must convert them to InstallMate 9 format first (using InstallMate 9) before opening them in InstallMate 11.
Detailed per-release information can be found in the InstallMate 11 Release notes.
Upgrading your license
Registered users of Tarma InstallMate 9 and earlier are eligible to buy an equivalent InstallMate 11 license at a substantial discount by using the appropriate Buy online links on the Buy InstallMate 11 page.
Converting your projects via InstallMate 9
InstallMate 9 can open projects created with QuickInstall 2, ExpertInstall 3, Installer 5, and InstallMate 7.
When opening a project from a previous Tarma product, its contents are automatically converted to the InstallMate 9 structure and conventions. The original project is not modified; when you save a converted project, it is stored in a new InstallMate 9 project file.
The following table summarizes the most important differences between the various project formats.
| QuickInstall 2 | ExpertInstall 3/Installer 5 | InstallMate 7 | InstallMate 9 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Project file extension | .tin | .tip | .im7 | .im9 |
| Project file encoding | ANSI (using the default code page) | Unicode (UTF-8 or UTF-16) | same | Unicode UTF-8 |
| Project file format | Derived from Windows .ini files | XML 1.0 | XML 1.0; uses different tags | QML (C-like syntax) |
| Localization | Limited to the default code page | Full Unicode support, except for surrogates | same | same |
| Editable? | Yes, with any plain text editor or tool | Only with Unicode-enabled text editors and tools | same | same |
| Structure | Mostly flat, with a few nesting levels | Fully nested, follows XML 1.0 syntax rules | same | Fully nested, follows C-like syntax rules |
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