auto update

[bezaman]

i'm thinking of trying to set up an auto update. basically it would work like this. check if current app file version is greater than file version in text file on server. if it is, close the exe and replace the old exe with the new version. any ideas or suggestion would be helpful. the only examples i found were for downloading updates from the web.

[Hack]

Are you looking to have this program, and the newest version, out on your local network somewhere as opposed to the web?

[bezaman]

yeah, exactly.

[bezaman]

the program will be on the client computer and the new version will be in a network folder. i'm thinking i will have a update.exe that the program will run at startup. update.exe will check the program version against the new version of the exe on the network. maybe i will have a text file with the new version in it.

[Hack]

I did something similiar to this, but the clients had to actually run the Update program that was installed on their PC.

When a new version was ready, I emailed them to run the update.

[Campion]

I did something similiar to this, but the clients had to actually run the Update program that was installed on their PC.

Another programmer I know does something similar. He has a MOTD show on start, and provides a message to let the user know if an update is available. After that, he uses a messagebox to check the user's preference to update or not.

If the user clicked yes, then that user is sent to the website for the program where they could download the update.