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How Does Your Software Company Push Out Updates?
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Jeff Widman Oct 7.
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Is this downloadable software or SaaS or purely a web app through the browser??
(These days, when people say software, the lines are a bit blurry...)
Consider Upgrading .NET Framework-based Applications section in Deploying .NET Framework-Based Applications
Thank you all for your replies!
It's really not hard to do your own thing and then you have freedom to modify how it works. I use an HTTP get to the server to fetch the latest version, alert the user, if they select update I run an external app that pulls the installer down and ...
Sam: we spent some time evaluting ready-made systems, but I can't remmember any and we do not find them very useful for us.
When a user runs our software, we notify them of their version and the current version available. If they want the update, they have to come to the web site and download it manually.
Impressive! Any ready-made systems out there that you'd recommend?
I use to work on desktop app that have about 500k - 1M active users each day. We have build our own update system, each app checks if there is new version daily and then download it and install update automatically.
To prevent cases that wrong up...
Question for software companies out there: What mechanism(s) do you use to push out your updates?
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