I've been reading various programming forums, listening to the pros and cons of everyone's favorite languages, and hearing tales of woe about programmers that are lazy about memory management, don't document well enough, confuse simple keywords with variables, or are just plain bored. After contemplating several ways to tackle these issues, I've come up with a new programming language that could solve these dire issues while combining the nostalgia of my favorite language, Pascal, with the modern complexity developers have come to expect. I'm going to call this new language, Delphi++.

In the latest video of Embarcadero's 30 for 30 series, Ian Barker gives a great overview of many of the popular installation builders to help you package and distribute your applications to virtually any platform. One of the most popular tools for us Delphi programmers targeting Windows is InnoSetup, a free and open-source tool by Jordan Russel. This solid program has been around for a very long time, it can handle nearly any Windows-based installation needs, AND is written in Delphi! I thought it might be useful to share some of the things I've done with it over the years as examples of how it can be used; you never know when a technique might be useful to someone (or even my future self!).

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You can (and should) have complete control over all aspects of the version information, application icon, operating system compatibility, requested user access, Windows theming dependencies, and more in your Delphi projects!