BimlFlex Installers
The BimlFlex Developer Installation and BimlStudio each come with two installers. The web installer is small and downloads the product packages during setup. The offline installer carries those packages inside one file for a machine that cannot download during setup. Both installers of a product install the same product and version through the same installer screens. Only the packaging differs. This page lists every installer by product and flavor, what each installer carries, what it downloads during setup and where it is downloaded from. The installation steps are on the Installing BimlFlex page. The machine requirements are on the System Requirements page.
Which installer to choose
- Use the web installer on a machine that can download during setup.
- Use the offline installer on a machine that cannot download during setup. It needs no file beside it, carries the product packages and the .NET 10 and Visual C++ runtimes it installs, and downloads nothing on 64-bit Windows.
- As a third way, place the package files from the versioned download folder beside the web installer. The web installer then uses those files and downloads no product package.
With the web installer, a machine with no internet access needs the runtimes listed under Installing with no internet access installed first. With the BimlFlex offline installer it needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime installed first, and with the BimlStudio offline installer nothing.
Both installers show a step list beside every screen and a progress line for each package the installer downloads.
In the file names below, <version> stands for the four-part version number of the release.
BimlFlex Developer Installation
| Installer | File | Size | What it carries | What it downloads during setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web | bimlflexdevsetup_x64_<version>.exe | about 22 MB | The SQL Server Integration Services component packages and the WebView2 bootstrapper | The BimlStudio, BimlFlex App and BimlFlex Operations Center packages, and any missing runtime from Microsoft |
| Offline | bimlflexdevsetupoffline_x64_<version>.exe | about 447 MB | The BimlStudio, BimlFlex App and BimlFlex Operations Center packages, beside the SQL Server Integration Services component packages, the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime, the .NET 10 Runtime, the ASP.NET Core 10 Runtime and both Visual C++ Redistributables | Nothing on 64-bit Windows. On 32-bit Windows, the 32-bit .NET 10 Desktop Runtime when it is missing |
The BimlFlex App package installs the BimlFlex MCP server in the Mcp folder of the BimlFlex application.
BimlStudio
| Installer | File | Size | What it carries | What it downloads during setup |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web | bimlstudiosetup_x64_<version>.exe | about 19 MB | No product package | The BimlStudio package, and any missing runtime from Microsoft |
| Offline | bimlstudiosetupoffline_x64_<version>.exe | about 182 MB | The BimlStudio package and the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime | Nothing |
BimlFlex Runtime Installation
The BimlFlex Runtime Installation installs the runtime components for servers that execute SQL Server Integration Services packages. It comes as one installer, bimlflexruntimesetup_x64_<version>.exe, of about 20 MB. This installer carries its packages and downloads no product package, so it has no offline installer.
32-bit flavors
BimlStudio and the BimlFlex Developer Installation also come in 32-bit flavors, each with the same web and offline pair of installers. The 32-bit BimlFlex Developer Installation comes without the AI features. The 32-bit web installers are about 22 MB for BimlFlex and 19 MB for BimlStudio, and the 32-bit offline installers about 399 MB and 229 MB, carrying both .NET 10 Desktop Runtimes and, for BimlFlex, both Visual C++ Redistributables.
| Product | Web installer | Offline installer |
|---|---|---|
| BimlStudio | bimlstudiosetup_x86_<version>.exe | bimlstudiosetupoffline_x86_<version>.exe |
| BimlFlex Developer Installation without the AI features | bimlflexdevsetup_x86_no_ai_<version>.exe | bimlflexdevsetupoffline_x86_no_ai_<version>.exe |
What the web installer downloads
The web installer downloads each product package during setup from the versioned download folder of its release, https://download.varigence.com/bimlflex/<major>.<minor>.<build>/.
| Package | File | Size | Installed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| BimlStudio | bimlstudiox64msi.msi | about 104 MB | BimlFlex and BimlStudio |
| BimlFlex App | bimlflexappx64msi.msi | about 151 MB | BimlFlex |
| BimlFlex Operations Center | bimlflexoperationscenterx64msi.msi | about 34 MB | BimlFlex |
The installer records the hash and the size of each package. It checks a downloaded or found package against both, so a package of another version is not installed.
With the installer, a BimlFlex install downloads about 312 MB in all and a BimlStudio install about 123 MB.
Installing with no internet access
There are two ways to install on a machine with no internet access:
- Run the offline installer. It carries the product packages and the .NET 10 and Visual C++ runtimes it installs inside the one file, so it needs no file beside it and no download. The BimlFlex offline installer needs the Microsoft Edge WebView2 Runtime on the machine already, which the BimlFlex web installer installs when it is missing.
- Place the package files from the same versioned download folder beside the web installer and run it. The BimlFlex web installer uses
bimlstudiox64msi.msi,bimlflexappx64msi.msiandbimlflexoperationscenterx64msi.msi. The BimlStudio web installer usesbimlstudiox64msi.msi. The installer uses those files in place of the download.
With the web installer, install these runtimes first:
- .NET 10 Desktop Runtime
- .NET 10 Runtime
- ASP.NET Core 10 Runtime
- Visual C++ Redistributable
- WebView2 Evergreen runtime
The web installer carries none of these runtimes and downloads a missing one from Microsoft during setup, which needs internet access. The offline installer carries the .NET 10 and Visual C++ runtimes it installs and leaves out the WebView2 runtime, which BimlFlex needs and BimlStudio does not.
Where the installers are downloaded from
The installers of the current release are available through the BimlFlex Release Notes and from the downloads page of the Varigence website.
Every release places every installer and package file in its versioned download folder under its lowercase file name. The two BimlStudio installers also have a fixed download address, which does not change with the version: https://download.varigence.com/bimlstudio/latest/bimlstudiosetup_x64.exe and https://download.varigence.com/bimlstudio/latest/bimlstudiosetupoffline_x64.exe for the stable release, and the same two file names under https://download.varigence.com/bimlstudio/preview/ for the preview release.
BimlExpress
BimlExpress installs into Visual Studio from its own .vsix file, as described on the Install BimlExpress page.