File download resuming component for use in Auto Updating
Hi, It turns out install shield doesn't support file download resuming. Is there a .net component that provides this functionality? ...
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Best practice for autoupdates
For desktop based applications, what are best practices to perform auto updates? Currently, we download all files, then copy and register (if com dll) to their respective directories. I looked at Google Chrome update method. It seems that it first downloads a zipped file into a directory, and then unzips all the files. Also, they h...
Questions about using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service
I have a few questions in regards to using the Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) as a scheme to add auto-updating capabilities to a windows application. 1 - If a user disables the Windows Update process, does Windows disables BITS? 2 - How does BITS interact with firewalls (hardware and software)? For example, I install ...
Auto-update library for .NET?
On the Mac there's a really nice library called Sparkle that programs can use to implement the checking/install functionality for auto-updates. Is there anything similar out there for .NET? Or just regular Win32? Cheers, ...
Best auto-update component(s) for Delphi
I am re-writing and/or consolidating a bunch of my "app framework" classes (basic mainform, about box, locking routines & purchase linking, auto-update, datamodule initializer, etc) -- Basically, I have a number of small potential shareware apps that I'm wanting to get out the door, and want to re-use code where I can, as well as build a...
Auto update .NET applications
We are in a process of developing a really complex system consisting of several WCF services, ASP.NET MVC applications, administration tools (Windows Forms apps)... Some of those, will have instances running on several servers. We are looking for a good auto update solution for such a system. Most likely, we would need a separate auto up...
Auto update your applications through Windows Update
Here is a scenario: User installs .NET application that you have made. After some time, you find a security issue in it and create a patch for it. When patch is ready, you post it "somewhere", and when next Windows update is run on user's machine (automatically or manually), that application is updated, too. I'm wondering if this is poss...
NSIS - Silent Autoupdate Application
Hello, I have an NSIS install kit for my .net c# application. Is there a way to silently autoupdate my application, considering that I already downloaded the new update (new NSIS app version) to local computer ? Thanks! :) ...
Autoupdate feature in a Java Swing desktop App
I've developed a desktop Swing app and I'm thinking about the best way to provide the autoupdate feature. I know that JavaWebStart provides this but I think that It doesn't suit my needs because I need to read local files so I would need to sign the jar. Besides, JWS requires extra work to deploy in the server while now I only need to u...
Auto update: Is this secure?
Dot Net Auto Update I felt like .net was lacking a simple secure automatic update library so I've implemented something and put it up here. Before anyone considers using the library I was keen for the update process to get a bit a peer review. Here are the steps: The client software is populated with a public key and URI to poll. Cl...
Excel-like auto-updating table cells using jQuery
I have an HTML table structure that looks something along the lines of: PRICE QUANTITY TOTAL [5____] [2____] 10 (TOTAL1=PRICE1*QUANTITY1) The values in the price and quantity column are editable. These are HTML form fields. The values in the total column are not editable. Instead they are direct functions of the colu...
ui.datepicker.js calendar autoUpdate another calendar when date change.
Hi, I'm using ui.datepicker.js In my edit form I have 2 calendars that have their own function. Calendar A : is the date that the invoiced is created Calendar B : is the date for next billing Bill_freq is the field where is set the billing frequency (every 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 12 months) What I want to do is when date is chan...
Restarting a self-updating python script
I have written a script that will keep itself up to date by downloading the latest version from a website and overwriting the running script. I am not sure what the best way to restart the script after it has been updated. Any ideas? I don't really want to have a separate update script. oh and it has to work on both linux/windows too....
stack overflow on XMLListCollection collectionEvent
I'm working on a Flex 3 project, and I'm using a pair of XMLListCollection(s) to manage a combobox and a data grid. The combobox piece is working perfectly. The XMLListCollection for this is static. The user picks an item, and, on "change", it fires off an addItem() to the second collection. The second collection's datagrid then di...
Is there a framework for allowing apps published on Codeplex to auto-update directly from Codeplex?
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...
Best way to update products
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...
Why is "My" namespace unavailable?
Our Winform app consists of a Main.exe and a Launcher.exe. The purpose of the Launcher app is to check for updated versions of the Main.exe. If it finds no updates it launches Main.exe using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start If it finds an update, it copies the new Main.exe into position and launches Main.exe the same way (in this case ...
My Application's Auto-update utility is triggering Anti-Virus
I've created an auto-updating application which is distributed to 100s of users. The auto-update utility is being flagged by 55% of antiviruses on virustotal ( link ). My application was created in Delphi 7. Most of the flags are saying that this is Generic trojan/malware, obviously the software isn't actually malware (I'm the only one...
Android: How do I make a ListView update itself periodically?
I never got this working in a straightforward manner. Sorry if I'm being a little vague. I'll try to elaborate on what I'm trying to do. I am trying to build a listview that grabs its data from a webservice. Once I initialize a listview, I want to keep polling the webserver periodically and update the contents of the listview. For this I...
clickonce - what is a good open source alternative to clickonce? (DDay.Update)?
Hi, What is a good open source alternative to clickonce? One that is most popular and under active development I guess? DDay.Update perhaps? Is this the main one? thanks PS. I've come up with a few from searching, but would appreciate any feedback from people how have reviewed these and have an idea of which is most popular/worth...