Deployment project upgrade help

[knappster]

Hi,

I have a deployment project which works fine and installs my application with no problems. But I was wondering how do I go about installing patches? For example, I have just made some updates to my application and want to patch the version I installed. Also, the application contains a blank database that is installed when the deployment file is first run, so when I patch the application I obviously do not want to overwrite the database. How do you go about doing this?

Cheers,
Lee.

[isnoend07]

I do it like this;
My program installs a lot of sample files from a resource file , price lists, rtf files etc, when the user edits them they are no longer sample files. In sub main I check if these files exit on the users machine, if not they are retrieved from a custom resource in a resource file. Have not tried putting a database in there, but it should work.
Mine contains a .chm file, ini files, rtf files and txt files. I have even recently added a ocx file. This method works great for not overwriting users data. You just give them a new exe file like this:
http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb...xtCodeId=69060
Look here for resource information: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q194409/