Kill ;. Uninstall savedState ;. We see the Custom Actions Editor pane in the left window, right-click it to add a custom action and select the primary output in the Application Folder. We see the primary output added as custom actions now. Now at the time of uninstallation my custom action will be fired, and the application will be closed while uninstalling it. Net Framework What if the installation machine does not have a.
Net Framework? We can specify our own package supplied with the installation, so that our application does not depend on the. Net Framework of the client machine, but points to the package we supplied to it to run.
Right-click on the Setup project, to open the properties window. Here we can specify pre-requisites for the application to install. Just click on the Prerequisites button and, in the prerequisites window, select the checkbox for the. Net Framework that the application needs, and select the radio button at nunber 2, in other words Download the prerequisites from the same location as my application.
Press "OK" to save the project and re-build it. Now when we browse to the Debug folder of the Setup project we see two more folders as a result of the actions we just did.
Now this entire package has to be supplied to the client machine for the installation of the application. Now re-install the application from setup. Conclusion This tutorial covers the basic steps for creating the installation project. I did not go very deep into explaining the registry and license agreements though. There are many things to be explored yet to understand and master this topic.
However, this article was just a start for a developer to play around with setups and deployments. Happy Coding. View All. Akhil Mittal Updated date May 19, Collections; using System. Generic; using System. ComponentModel; using System. Install; using System. Diagnostics; using System. Kill ; base. Next Recommended Reading. Net Core 6. Create A. Understanding Thread Starvation in. NET Core Applications. Exploring Numeric Streams In Java.
What Is The Metaverse. Microservice Circuit Breaker Pattern. Now we check if the newVersion and url are not empty. The Application. Luckily in the. NET executing assembly there is a variable, which happens to be the same type as our newVersion. And in our solution we can simply change the url in the xml file and the users would be automatically directed to the new homepage.
You can also download the sample project. Thanks for the sample. Easy to follow. How can i have the project plug the latest version into the file for me? Is it possible? To make it short: you can write you own very simple tool and attach it to the post-build event. In Visual Studio you can use project build events to run your own console tool f.
At the end the tool should create a new xml containing the current version number and optionally upload both the executable and the xml to your web server.
Hope this helps. Thanks for the response mech. It would only be published to a network share. Question — how to do the actual update? If your patcher is launched from within the main app, how do you overwrite the files during run time? Also, for projects with multiple files an exe,. This solves the problem of multiple files. Of course it would be easier if the application updated itself automatically. If you would like to do this I see two solutions: 1 Download the installer to the temporary directory.
Execute the installer using Process. Start and immediately call Application. Shutdown to end the running program. The installer should install the new version and re-launch our application. I wrote a simple tutorial about creating MSI installers. Start and terminate the current process. While executing the app from the temporary location you should pass some parameters indicating it should perform an auto update.
Start and terminates — the new version should perform a cleanup removing the temporary executable created at the beginning. I found your site on technorati and read a few of your other posts. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to reading more from you down the road! And your feedback of course gives the motivation to continue the work. So again, thanks to all of you. Regards, mech. This is a wonderful idea!
Thanks for sharing it! Awesome post, Worked perfect! It makes thing so much easier when you can find a strait forward answer to a question. Thanks for the help, this was exactly what I was looking for! Great article. John, Thank you for pointing this out, you are absolutely right — the reader should be closed in both cases — when everything is OK and when an exception occurred during parsing.
And try…finally is of course the way to do it. I implemented this in my own application and ran into a small inconvenience. MoveToContent will return an exception fairly quickly if there is no network connection at all, but if the user is on VPN it takes about 60 seconds before it errors out.
Create xmlURL ; hwRequest. Skip to content. NET Public. Star 2k. MIT License. Branches Tags. Could not load branches. Could not load tags. Latest commit. Added ability to clear application directory before extracting update…. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. Jan 13, Now using nullable DateTime for Remind Later. Jan 26, Added Logo. This closes Jun 11, Aug 24, View code.
The NuGet Package Supported. Forced ;. Days ; AutoUpdater. StartupPath ;. StartupPath ; if currentDirectory. Size , ;. Combine Environment. CurrentDirectory , " settings. Start ;. Sleep ; Application. This is required update. Press Ok to begin updating the application. OK , MessageBoxIcon. Do you want to update the application now? YesNo , MessageBoxIcon. ShowUpdateForm args ; if dialogResult. Equals DialogResult. Yes dialogResult. Show exception. Message , exception.
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