I have a question regarding installation and launching .Net stand-alone applications from a webpage. We are interested in providing the same functionality essentially that the Microsoft Windows Update Control provides: See http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp
We would like the user to navigate to a URL where the client computer will automatically be checked for installation of our application. If the application is already installed and up to date then it can be automatically launched, or alternatively the user is directed to a new page where there is a button to launch the application. If the application is not installed or is an old version then a the windows Installation program will automatically be launched and the application installed an launched automatically. How would this be accomplished?. There is no information regarding this in the Microsoft site. Note that this functionality is very similar to ActiveX controls. How is it that .Net implement this functionality? Note, that our application is not a UserControl that can be embedded in IE. Also we will need to run an installation program to detect whether the .Net Framework is or isn't install on the client machine, and install it if it is not installed. Thank you You can read messages from the Advanced DOTNET archive, unsubscribe from Advanced DOTNET, or subscribe to other DevelopMentor lists at http://discuss.develop.com.
