Support for checking for new releases

[michael sorens]

Does .Net 2.0 provide any library support classes for notifying the user
when an interactive application (Windows Form) has an updated version of
the software available?

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Michael,

Yes, it does, have you checked out ClickOnce?
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"michael sorens" <m_********@community.nospam> wrote in message
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Does .Net 2.0 provide any library support classes for notifying the user
when an interactive application (Windows Form) has an updated version of
the software available?

[Rene]

Other than ClickOnce, the easies thing that you could probably do would be
to create a simple web service that returns a string containing the latest
release number available.

You can use the "Version" class to convert the returned web service version
number string and the running application version number string into a
version object that you can use to easily compare.

Webservices are very easy to create.

"michael sorens" <m_********@community.nospam> wrote in message
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Does .Net 2.0 provide any library support classes for notifying the user
when an interactive application (Windows Form) has an updated version of
the software available?