I have searched through google and SO for possible answers to this question, but can only find small bits of information scattered around the place, most of which appear to be personal opinion. I'm aware that this question could be considered subjective, but I'm not looking for personal opinion, rather facts with reasons (e.g. past exp...
We have developed a program which checks our web site to see whether or not a new version is available. When a new version is available, a download program starts and retrieves the files, then copies that whole folder on top of the source and restarts the program with the new version. The problem is that when we run the program that se...
I'm developing a application in Lazarus, that need to check if there is a new version of a XML file on every Form_Create. How can I do this? ...
I'm trying to create an updating clock in Javascript. Everything is working correctly as I step through the debugger, except that it's not actually updating the span. Any ideas why? <script type="text/javascript"> // The following line of code is in a setInterval() // time is set correctly, according to my debugger document.getElement...
I love applications that are able to update themselves without any effort from the user (think: Sparkle framework for Mac). Is there any code/library I can leverage to do this in a Qt app, without having to worry about the OS details? At least for Windows/Mac/user-owned-linux-binaries. I could integrate Sparkle on the Mac version, code ...
I have a small web app (Mvc) that I need to periodically update (no ftp or other access). I would like that from the "Super Ultra Mega administratior" page direcly in the app I can spin up the update process. I know this is not the best security approach but I can live with it and I would like to avoid a permanent service that continuo...
I have a .msi to install a program. Upon 'update', I want to be able to check whether there is an update available on a server, and if there is, install it. Can msiexec do that? I've looked around, and all I can find is that the /update just applies .msp patches. Is the .msp patch a patch for the installer itself, or for the installe...
OK my flex app checks for a file on the internet (update.xml) which contains the most recent version number and a location on where to download the update, if the most recent version number is not the version of the current app, then the app auto-updates using the file at the location listed in the (update.xml) file. If my app fails to ...
I'm using Claus Wahlers' AIR Remote Updater class (codeazur.com.br/lab/airremoteupdater/). All works fine and an update is triggered if the remote version is newer. The newer file is downloaded and the update starts. However I then get "an error has occured" message: "This application cannot be installed because this installer has been m...
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...
I release several modifications a week for my Windows Services and my users have to update it manually. I was think in rolling my own auto-update component, but I heard of ClickOnce, which seems to suit only Windows Forms and not Windows Services. Is there any similar solution for my case? And if I should develop this feature myself, sh...
I am trying to do something similar to this stackoverflow posting. What I want to do is to read the definition of an activity or service from the SD card. To avoid manifest permission issues, I create a shell version of this activity in the .apk, but try to replace it with an activity of the same name residing on the SD card at run time....
I'm trying to bind a table of structures to a DataGridView. Loading and viewing the table is working fine but I can't edit a value and get it stored back into the table. Here's what I'm doing. I have a "primitive" data type, Real defined by public struct MyReal:IMyPrimative { public Double m_Real; //... public MyReal(Stri...
I have a number of users which are logged in at a time in my desktop application. They are working on the same table (create, read, update, delete data) so I have to update their views, to reflect changes, every few seconds - currently I am thinking to use a different thread to do that. I am using the MySQL database engine. Is there ...
How would you Unit Test the update process of an application? I have an application and now I'm writing my own Update module for it (using MVVM) which is a separate EXE. What is the best way to structure this module so that it will be possible to unit test. ...
Hi people. I just try to figure out a good solution on designing the update process for a windows form application i created. I think of a button inside the app for manual checking of an update and checking when starting the app. Only I'm not familiar with technics. I though to have the update setup file in a FTP Server and checking the...
As a way to prevent the major annoyances of browser segmentation and older versions. This way the code would only need to be done for the latest version of the browser, but users could still have the functionality of the older version and not be forced to do major updates? I am sure there will be some major flaws in this, and I would ...
Hello Experts!!! I've been facing a deployment problem.I've built a WPF application with visual studio 2008 and created an installer(msi) which works fine.But then it's pain to add automatic update to it. i've seen this article at windowsclient.net but it seems to be pretty old but could have been the perfect thing for me.Then i looke...
I have written a WordPress plugin, and I am trying to find the best way of having the program check for updates on my server, and downloading them automatically at the user's request. This will basically be used to download extra features that I don't want to put into the WordPress repository due them not having the GNU license. I've ...
I have created a website (www.accidentalwords.com) using squarespace as the host. I would like to have my website recognize the category that I have assigned to the blog post and repost it on another blog. For example, on my site there is a like to "food". If I were to create a post on the food page and gave it a category of "Ingredient...