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May 15, 2008
07:26 PM
Starting the updating application AFTER patch
Hello,
I would love to have a system like MAC users have with the sparkle framework. I want my .NET windows app to learn an update is available, download the update, install the update, and then restart.
I do all of the above except the last item. I use a web service to query for updates, download the update, launch the update, but then what? That's the hard part, and I'm using Basic MSI. How can I get a patch to launch the application being patched after the patch process is completed? The application's EXE may not be in the patch set, however, I do store the location of the application in the registry, if that helps.
Any tips on how to relaunch the application being patched at patch completion would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
I would love to have a system like MAC users have with the sparkle framework. I want my .NET windows app to learn an update is available, download the update, install the update, and then restart.
I do all of the above except the last item. I use a web service to query for updates, download the update, launch the update, but then what? That's the hard part, and I'm using Basic MSI. How can I get a patch to launch the application being patched after the patch process is completed? The application's EXE may not be in the patch set, however, I do store the location of the application in the registry, if that helps.
Any tips on how to relaunch the application being patched at patch completion would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
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May 16, 2008
01:20 PM
A "normal" patch (as opposed to a QuickPatch project) can contain any differences between the before and after MSI databases, including new custom actions. Can the new version contain a custom action to launch the executable, and then generate a patch from that?