writing files/moving files architecture...

hey, hope your well.

I am having a bit of a bother trying to figure this one out, my mind is all over the place and havent had much sleep!

ok, my application can check for an update on the net using webservices. if an update is availiable it downloads it and puts it in the "Files/yyy" folder. the app runs as normal after the update.

now, after the update, it is recommended to run the new app, but the new app is in the Files/yyy folder. Fair enough, no problem, user goes into that folder and runs the latest version of the app.

same thing again, user can check for update, if update is available, it puts it into the Files/yyy folder, so this time:

Files/yyy/Files/yyy

see where I am going?

how can I copy/move the updated file into the directory the application is running from - but the updated app has the SAME filename as the current running app.... how can I resolve that problem? I dont want to have to rename the updated file when its transferred....

what possible solutions could there be for this scenario? Is there one?

you can possibly make a "update.exe" file ( separate program) that would wait for the old version of app to quit (you could check to see if the app has quitted using the list of system processes in system.Diagnostics.Process....). If so then update.exe could simply delete the old app file and move the updated file into the correct application directory.

You could even close the app and ask the user to run a BAT file once the app has closed

well yeh i could do that but dont want to have to make a seperate app just to do the update....

i want the app to do everything itself wherever possible

hmm well it'd be impossible for the app to move/delete its exe if it's already running. So you'd either have to write another exe to do it, make a BAT file, or hmm cant think of any other way?

it seems impossible, how else could this be done?:D

I know you didnt like my last idea, but still elaborating a bit more on it:D
you could make a "launcher.exe" application. Make the shortcut of your app to this exe. When you run it, it would check to see if any updates have been put to your special update folder, if so then it would replace the update file with the old program file. After that you can run the application by doing Process.Start() and you can close the launcher.exe program.

hopefully someone else will give a better idea :)