Re: winforms based product updates provision

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Thanks for the solution Marc,

Can i use the updater block in .net 2.0 ?
i look for the updated version of this block but could not find it over msdn.

Can u guide me find the latest version if any?

thanks in advance
NZ

Marc Bernard wrote:
On May 17, 4:10 am, enzeez <nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello,

I need to provide an updater exe along with my product executable in setup.

My product exe will check for updates if any, available and will launch
a process , updater.exe.
updater.exe downloads the updated version available.
This updater.exe needs to replace the current product exe with the new
ones thats downloaded.

Can someone guide me how do i achieve this?

Is it ok to just replace or delete the current exe and create a new exe
with same name?

I am new to such a task and i need to know the best possible solution.

I dont want users to uninstall and install the new version.
However, uninstalling silently by the updater.exe and then the
downloaded setup.exe run by updater.exe is also acceptable - is this
possible?


We're using a custom updater, heavily based on the Updater Application
block.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c6c17f3a-d957-4b17-9b97-296fb4927c30&displaylang=en

Works great - we can choose to have multiple versions on a single
machine, update the app silently in the background, then prompt the
user to switch to the new one once it's downloaded, etc.

Marc
http://nomagichere.blogspot.com
.

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