[.net] Updateable Application
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I need to make an application updateable via a webservice style updater. Can anyone point me in the direction of some tutorials or explain briefly how this is done?
Author
Yes, We need more customisation than clickonce can provide. We need shortcuts in the startup folder which can be uninstalled with the application for instance.
Most ClickOnce apps will have a 'regular' setup (incl. registry modification, startmenu and desktop icons and whatnot) from a download or CD and then will use the ClickOnce API to support "Check for Update" and automatic updates.
There's two dll's/set of source files from microsoft that you can use to basically write your own deployment stuff, with the old manifests and what not, I can't think of the name of them off hand and unless someone beats me to it I'll post them later when I get home.
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C6C09314-E222-4AF2-9395-1E0BD7060786&displaylang=en
[Edited by - Niksan on November 23, 2006 12:18:24 PM]
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http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C6C09314-E222-4AF2-9395-1E0BD7060786&displaylang=en
[Edited by - Niksan on November 23, 2006 12:18:24 PM]
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I have managed to do what I want using a combination of a web service and the system.diagnostics namespace. One more question though. I am passing a byte array across a webservice, is there any way of monitoring the progress of the transfer in order to display a progress bar?
I suggest you read about using Microsoft's "Updater Application Block": http://www.theserverside.net/tt/articles/showarticle.tss?id=UpdateAppBlock
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