Project Suggestions !

well there are two features about my project i want to discuss n how to go about it !

1) i want to make different versions of my application n update user automatically, just like yahoo,msn messengers that when their new version is updated the user automatically gets notified

2) i want to make my setup file usable by only one user/machine, other persons should download their own copy.

in case if ne one is interested in finding out wat my project is about then visit this thread
http://www.vbforums.com/showthread.p...light=hyousuf2

I haven't had your need, so I have not checked out the following example.
It may be helpful ?

http://reliableanswers.com/vb/samples.asp

It is the first example
mRA_Startup.zip

well actually this is not exaclty wat i want n dat sample doesn't include project with it also, it jus has the modules with it. ne other bright ideas

1) The biggest difficulty with this is finding somewhere that is accessible to all your users. Assuming they are all on the same network you can save a text file with a version number in it and have the program check its version against this every time it runs. Failing that, you would have to set up a web site with the version number on it.

2) You can achieve this by using the Windows Installer (free from Microsoft - see here for details)

hiya
well first of all the last suggestion about text file is not gonna help much as it poses some difficulties, but the first link of project supplied is i guess quite good, i tried to explore it but din't get hang of it as to how should i place those modules in my code, just if ne one can provide a bit more help on that project
and as far as the setup is concerned i have already made setup using Inno Setup but what i want now is that one setup should only install on one machine which can be tracked using hd no. or some othere hardware !

Do some searching on the forum's code bank - wokawidget has posted some good update code (I'm too lazy to look it up right now myself..lol)

As to the single pc per download that's a little trickier. The only reliable solution I've seen along these lines is implemented by a program called ListMate..if the pc it is installed on need the OS reloaded, or you wish to transfer the program to another pc, you must contact them prior to doing either and provide them with some codes and they will in turn provide you with some codes so the installer will run again. I have no idea if they developed this or if it's something commercially available but a good googeling might provide more info.

well quite ryte
this is exactly how i want to do things, but the problem is about generating those codes ?!?! :ehh:

it wouldn't be hard if the app coud download the rest of the setup from the net, but barring that, you could requre an id number before running the program. this will keep others from being able to run the program, although any one can install it. just use hardware identification to tie it to a machine, and then it will be registered for each user.