I am planning on making an application that downloads new updates as they become available. From experience what have people encountered when creating self updating applications.
Before people get up-in-arms, there will be a auto-update question during the install. Clients will have the choice to not enable it, but if it is enabled I am looking at what pitfalls people have seen.
Firewall issues will be address separately I am just concerned with the basic process.
Some questions I can think of...
Before people get up-in-arms, there will be a auto-update question during the install. Clients will have the choice to not enable it, but if it is enabled I am looking at what pitfalls people have seen.
Firewall issues will be address separately I am just concerned with the basic process.
Some questions I can think of...
- Where do you download these files to first?
- Do you copy the files from the download location to "%program files%\My Application Dir" or run them from the download location (except for %temp%)?
- Does Windows balk at this process (Windows itself, not concerned with Virus/spyware protection at this stage).
- Success stories/Horror stories?
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