Projects

Advanced Installer

Advanced Installer is a powerful, yet easy to use, Windows Installer authoring tool which helps you create MSI installs, App-V and UWP MSIX packages.
Advanced Installer is an IDE targeting exclusively Windows developers that need to build deployment packages for their products. Aside from serving as a developer IDE, closing the ALM loop, Advanced Installer is also a comprehensive sys-admin tool helping thousands of IT workers in their repackaging and infrastructure deployment needs.

At CAPHYON, I worked on Advanced Installer almost since its inception, developing various components, core-technologies and libraries, since 2005. Still having fun with this… 🤓

Advanced Installer is built almost exclusively in C++ as a Win32/WTL GUI desktop application. Small parts of it are built using HTML5 or C# and it makes use of some third-party open-source C/C++ libraries, such as: Boost, Expat, HTMLayout, LZMA, Scintilla, SQLite, WTL, zlib. It is a fairly big codebase, with over 4 million lines of C++ code, which produces over 190 DLL and EXE modules (most of them are customer deployed, others are internal tools).

Clang Power Tools

One of my “hobbies” is tidying-up and modernizing (C++17) the aging codebase of Advanced Installer and I’ve been known to build tools that help this process: Clang Power Tools

In 2017, I started this project with a few friends at Caphyon and we’re having a blast with it.

Clang Power Tools is a free Visual Studio extension helping Visual Studio C++ developers leverage Clang/LLVM tools (clang++, clang-tidy and clang-format), in order to perform various code transformations and fixes like modernizing code to C++11/14/17 and finding subtle latent bugs with its static analyzer and CppCoreGuidelines checks.

This project is open source and has enjoyed fantastic adoption and interest within the Visual C++ community.