Update.

[JezzBentham]

This is from my other post from the Visual Basic section. I was refered here from Killer42:

Post: 1

Hi, as you can see i am new to the forums but i have been using visual basic for a while now. I would say i am ok with it and have made some good programs with it. The thing i am wanting to no though is if there is a way to connect to a website and check for updates in an external file. Once finding notifiing the user and asking them to download the update.

I know there is software that does this but it is not in my price range. If this is, well lets say possible. How can I do it.

My views on something like that would be opening up a new form, and it would then show a progress bar or something similar that would show the user if it has found them.

BTW I am using Visual Basic 2005

Thanks Jezz.

Post 2:

Thanks for the reply. I know where your coming from, just the problem I am having is trying to get these into a project. Take Apple for example. They have their own little program that will locate new updated files from a server, remembering the actual version number and checking in something what is probably a webserver or even an XML file(I very much dought that they would use XML but it's an example).

Same with Mozilla, they too work with the same kind of thing. I will have to think about trying to put your views into my new project and hopefully get this working.

My project was orginally to make a program launcher but instead seen as it used the work Explorer I change it to a web browser. As the web browser redirects to the users homepage I simply cannot 'hijack' that homepage such as Google to say whether there is new updates. I know it might sound like a bit too much to ask for but it would be nice to have something that could check for updates on launch. Though my main question is; Is this possible to do through a small external XML file and destination links?

I was told some information from Killer42 about the Winsock control and the other areas around it. If anyone can help me it would be great. If not don't worry I will probaby find another way to deal with this.

Thanks Jezz