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This sections deals with editing and creating projects and packages based on the Windows Installer Technology or Raynet's own RPP project format. The component to handle these package / project types is PackDesigner. According to the level of experience and individual task requirements, users have two view modes for accessing data and performing manipulations:
Inspired by the many years of experience in the packaging business, Raynet has developed an innovative editor concept, which goes far beyond plain value manipulation functionality.
Its unique user interface provides a variety of improvements to ease the access, the overview, and the handling of data. Visual Designer, embedded into RayPack’s flat Windows 8 inspired style, uses a whole set of unified presentation and control elements to support users with an elaborate, responsive, and comfortable interface.
Preparing project / package properties for building MSI, MST, or MSP files becomes a convenient click-through experience. The Visual Designer serves an astonishing intuitive mixture of guided wizards, dynamic dialogues and best practice instructions. Whenever users create or edit a Windows Installer based project, the Visual Designer is their default working environment.
For all IT professionals who prefer direct database manipulation, there is the Advanced Mode. The integrated table editor is not only the most swift and direct access method to the core of any MSI related package / project, but offers some likewise innovative and handy features for a maximizing user experience, convenience and database integrity.
Additional advanced tasks, such as creating custom actions, managing the package sequences or adjusting upgrade related package properties, are also available in the views combined in PackDesigner's Advanced Mode.