Hey Craig,
I don't have any good C/C++ examples on hand. I *believe* that the DTF
examples have something similar that you could just translate.
I would recommend schedule tasks. Leaves very little room for debugging and
a bit more difficult (IMHO) to get setup correctly.
Thanks,
Brian Rogers
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On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Craig Miller <[email protected]
> wrote:
> I am investigating what's involved in writing an automatic updater for my
> software. Can anyone point me to a good technical document on how to do
> simple tasks in C/C++ such as iterate through the installed applications?
>
> My software has multiple parts, each of which is installed with a
> different installer. I only want to download updates for those parts of
> the product that have been installed. When the updater runs, I'm thinking
> that it should:
>
> - Determine which applications are installed
> - Hit a website for a small text file with the current version (1 per
> installed application)
> - If the new version is greater than the installed version, download the
> update (msi) and run it.
>
> I haven't decided if this will run in the background as a service, a
> scheduled task, or be a manual operation but that is secondary to getting
> the basic functionality working.
>
> If this post is better suited to the wix-users list, please let me know. I
> asked here because it seemed like it might be something that the core team
> might be interested in having if I get it working in a flexible way.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Craig
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