The Client-Side Installer Experience

The InstallAnywhere application is itself installed using an installer built with InstallAnywhere. (We'll call this installer the “InstallAnywhere installer,” just like you might call your installer “My_Product installer.”) Going through the process of installing InstallAnywhere is a useful exercise in observing the end-user experience of installing a client-side application, and that's what we are going to do next. The InstallAnywhere installer is built completely with InstallAnywhere and makes use of many of the InstallAnywhere features we'll cover in our exercises.

The first objective is simplicity. When your end-user visits your download page, you want to present a “single-click install.” This is accomplished ...

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