Application Updates

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Amit -
What I am looking for is, that my application checks if
there is an updated version of the application available
at some central server, and download it. kind of like an
auto update feature in windows. I just want some
guideline how to achieve it. basically
downloading/copying files over http.

Thanks
Ali
 
Let me see if I can get to find some good whitepapers on that.
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Amit -
What I am looking for is, that my application checks if
there is an updated version of the application available
at some central server, and download it. kind of like an
auto update feature in windows. I just want some
guideline how to achieve it. basically
downloading/copying files over http.

Thanks
Ali


Amit Chopra
Visual Studio for Devices
Microsoft Corp.
 
Hi Ali, I checked - we have a whitepaper for MSDN in the making right now.
Should be out soon.

Thanks

Amit
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Let me see if I can get to find some good whitepapers on that.
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Amit Chopra
Visual Studio for Devices
Microsoft Corp.


Amit Chopra
Visual Studio for Devices
Microsoft Corp.
 
The article was a big help though. It gave lot of nice ideas specially
on the self updating of an application.

I think I previously looked at that article before. It discusses BITS to
download the updates which is not an option on mobile devices. Is
there something in the System.Web that allows you to download/pull
files from a web server?

Checking for updates in not really a problem. Actually its the
programmatic download of files.

Thanks Much
Ali
 
Hi Ali,

Just been working on the same feature for our app. We use a web service to
return a value that the mobile app can use to decide whether or not an
upgrade is available. Then to transfer the app, we use "HTTP GET" to
download the cab file from the same web server. There was a recent posting
of some new samples from MS that included a simple HTTP Get sample.

Cheers,

Chris.
 
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