Download an upgrade / Control my app

[Jhd.Honza]

I want to able my application to check for its upgrades on internet and if any, to download it and succesfully replace with the existing one.

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As a second, does anybody know, how to control an application through the Internet?

[CyberCarsten]

Look at www.about.com under VB programming!
I have found a tutorial there, that shows you how to do it!

[Jhd.Honza]

Thank you for your reply - I had a look to About.Com but I didn't found what I searched for (I wasn't long there). Can you try to tell me where (at least roughly) is it there?

Thanks

[CyberCarsten]

Try to search on AutoUpdate

http://visualbasic.about.com/compute...rms=autoupdate

[Jhd.Honza]

Thanks for replies, thats it.

The sample uses INET control, which is not avaible on Win95. How can I use inet features under older Windows?

At second, the sample on About.Com uses a second EXE to upgrade the first. How to upgrade itself?

[CyberCarsten]

If you are using VB5+ it should be there....
The file name is: c:\windows\system\shdocvw.dll
If you can't find it, try upgrading to Win98 )

[Jhd.Honza]

The file you've mentioned is installed with Internet Explorer and you needn't have it to access the files.
(Maybe I'm wrong - then please tell my how to use this DLL to download a file)

I think about low-level API functions, that could be in W95 too...