Selective Smart Client deployment in .Net 1.1

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Soeren D. - 07 Sep 2005 11:07 GMT

I would like to be able to detect updates on a server and update the client
as described in the deployment model for smart clients.

It remains crutial however that I can present this as an option to the user.
I can see that .Net 2.0 has a "CheckForUpdate" feature, but I cannot find
any for .Net 1.1.

Can you assist? All input is more than wellcome.

Best regards
Soeren

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Tim_Mac - 07 Sep 2005 16:23 GMT

hi Soeren,
you may want to take a look at the application updater block. it's in
version 2.0 now and is widely used. it's extensible so you can customise it
yourself.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=C6C09314-E222-4AF2-9395
-1E0BD7060786&displaylang=en

the 'out of the box' smart client deployment in .Net 1.1 is full of gotchas
in my experience. (an IE pop up window shows during the check, config files
aren't included automatically, no progress/status report during the update).

hope this helps
tim

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>I would like to be able to detect updates on a server and update the client
>as described in the deployment model for smart clients.
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> Best regards
> Soeren

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