I am about to upload my Iphone application to the apple store, however I intend to release more versions in the near future. Is there anyway to make my application auto update once I upload a new version to the apple store?. That is as I am about to upload version 1.0, once i upload version 1.x, can the user be notified of this or can th...
Hello! I have a datagridview and a combobox which get populated randomly with data. However, the new data is never displayed automatically. Someone mentioned the idea of invalidating the control to force the application to redraw it and thus iterate through the contents and populate the control with the new data. Does anyone know which ...
I am about to develop a program which will be installed and run as a Windows Service on the back-end servers (with internet access) of several clients. I do not have physical access to the servers. What I am working on is a scheme for reliably rolling out updates to the program. I have spend quite a lot of time looking for best practice...
Hello, I have a table of topics, topics might have an automatic publish date, I want to make SQL Server auto publishes them. Previously I made it in code on each call to any method of the topics adapter, but I wanna make it automatically in SQL Server. Can I? It might be some kinda scheduled job or something like that. I'm using SQL...
Is it possible to update an application to a new version without closing it? Or is there a good way to do that without user noticing it was closed? ...
I have an application auto updater which checks for new updates, moves the existing files including the app.exe into a new folder and copies the new version .exe + .dll's into the app folder everything has been working perfectly without issues but there's one small glitch - the shortcuts created at the time of the original install becom...
I have a dropdown menu in my ASP .NET 2.0 C# page and when the user selects any item, a bunch of labels ad text boxes are updates with new info, but currently, my page does a postback and is re-rendered. What is the easiest (or shortest) way of getting the fields to update without a postback? I am getting the data off sql server. ...
I have a few users that are using a silverlight app that aren't recieving updates when a new release is published. Isn't this suppose to be automatic or perhaps I'm missing an option somewhere? I was also starting to think that maybe the XAP file is cached and I some how need to prevent that. Any thoughts out there? ...
Hello: I'm developing a Windows Form application that will typically minimize to the system tray. Being new to .net, what would the easiest approach be for packaging/deplopyment that allows: The application ensure it puts itself into the startup menu, or something equivalent to this. Easy updates—like those apps that periodically che...
We need to distribute documents to our partners on a USB key. I've been asked to develop a piece of software that will check if some documents have been updated on the server and proceed with the synchronization of files on the memory stick. The software itself will also need to have an auto-update functionality in case we want to impr...
Hi all. I have recently been setting up SVN in eclipse using the subversive plugin (still a bit lost but that's another issue). Been using this guide (http://soledadpenades.com/2008/12/10/add-svn-support-to-your-eclipse-installation/) and finally got it working! Only problem now is, I cant seem to find the Package Explorer, which is the ...
I am working on a program which includes a general purpose engine, some program specific content, and a custom automatic updater to handle updating the many gigabytes worth of media in our content as efficiently as possible. In a recent release of the engine, we have reorganized our directory structure, such that instead of the executabl...
What would be the Most secure and Safe way to allow software to auto-update without opening too many holes to enable a hacker easy access to a system? ...
Hey, I was wondering if there was a way of calling a method or updating a property on my ViewModel object when WPF binds to the object ? The reason I want to do this is that when my viewModel objects get created their data model only contains an ID that is used to query data from the database when necessary. So when the user navigates t...
I am wondering if it is possible to have a Java desktop application, on startup, look to some URL, to see if it needs an update, and if so download necessary JAR files, and add them to classpath for the running program. If the old jars are there, they shouldn't have been loaded into the classloader yet, at this point should they? Is ...
I need some advice on which path to go down to add some self-update capability to my app. I've got an app in the App Store that uses a database full of information that needs to be updated periodically. Up until now I have been updating the db only when I push a new version through the store. We need the ability to update the db quicke...
Endowing utility applications with "auto-update" capability seems like basic good manners these days. I'm thinking of apps like Reflector or Paint.NET, that proactively tell you "hey, there's a newer release available. Wanna download it?" Q: Does anyone know of a common framework that can be used by apps that come from Codeplex proj...
I just got an Java update notification that Update 17 is out, so I ran the update and found that only my public JRE was updated. I still only have Update 16 of the JDK. Is there a way to have the latest JDK automatically when it's available? Of course, the update shouldn't get rid of old versions. That should be done manually since Ecl...
I have this HTML manual that gets installed with my application. This manual gets updated often (3-5 times a week) and I want to warn my users if the manual is out of date. The first thing I thought of was to create a hot-linked image to my webserver that I could use to check the version that they where using and server an 'update' im...
Hello Some background: We provide a complex system consisting of a large database and several programs - most written in C#, however some legacy applications are still running on MFC. Most of the stuff we provide runs on a single server (runs SQL server and SQL Management studio 2005), however several applications can run on a number...