'Automatic Updates' and Public Versioning for .NET (desktop) application?

Question

We're building a desktop based .Net application in C# which we want to include automatic upgrades with local desktop's polling our web server from time to time looking for updates.

What the best solution for public versioning management and also for including automatic upgrades in our Desktop .Net application?

Basically so the client installs our desktop software, say at version 15.1 and when 15.2 comes out their software is automatically updated to the latest version.

Answer 1

.NET Application Updater Component makes it really easy to add an updater to any application. It can be easily coupled with an existing project as well. The same method of using the UAB (Updater Application Block) is used by Microsoft in ClickOnce as well.

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Answer 2

In previous applications we have used ClickOnce which could be an option. Here is explained how updates are working with it.

Answer 3

I'd like to suggest you to use ClickOnce Deployment.