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Saldash
10-03-11, 19:28
This is something that has been annoying me for sometime now,
I'm using Visual Basic 2008 Express to build and publish a couple of applications and I want to add an auto update ability to them.

All the examples I find online are either not VB.net express 2008, or are vb.net but are not compatible with newer versions and dont update correctly.

Where can I find a reasonably up to date example that will look online for a new version, download it, then auto-restart itself when the download is complete?

DoubleTop
10-03-11, 20:10
I don't think express versions have click&deploy, so you'll need to code it yourself, inside your app I'm afraid.

I may be very wrong though :lol:

Saldash
11-03-11, 20:05
I just want to ask on the off chance, does anyone here know a thing or two about vb.net form based programming?

I am having a bit of trouble getting a ServiceController object to work correctly in that I want to be able to list and control various services on my networked server.