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Updating my application via Internet


  • Subject: Updating my application via Internet
  • From: Michael Becker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 22:20:09 +0100

Hi!

In my current project, my customers want to have the possibility to check for available updates. Right now, I have a simple checking method: The application compares its own version number to the latest available version number (which lies on a remote server). If it finds that there's a newer version out there, a window is displayed with a message and a URL to the newer version download.

This is a very easy approach and it might confuse the user to have the same application twice on the computer, they might even end up removing the wrong one (the new one instead of the old one, etc.).

Are there any common ways to handle this? I guess you can't make a running application exchange itself by a downloaded one? What is the recommended way to take care of this updating thing (should be something that comes up in many projects, i guess...)

Kind regards,
Michael

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