Thanks Brian. I haven't been active in the Wix community. What is the DTF?
Craig From: Brian Rogers Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 6:16 PM To: Windows Installer XML toolset developer mailing list Subject: Re: [WiX-devs] Read installer info 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 "Intelligence removes complexity." - Me http://icumove.spaces.live.com 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Are you an open source citizen? Join us for the Open Source Bridge conference! Portland, OR, June 17-19. Two days of sessions, one day of unconference: $250. Need another reason to go? 24-hour hacker lounge. Register today! http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;215844324;13503038;v?http://opensourcebridge.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ WiX-devs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/wix-devs
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