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Aleksandar Vucetic
Aleksandar Vucetic

Reputation: 14953

Auto update your applications through Windows Update

Here is a scenario: User installs .NET application that you have made. After some time, you find a security issue in it and create a patch for it. When patch is ready, you post it "somewhere", and when next Windows update is run on user's machine (automatically or manually), that application is updated, too. I'm wondering if this is possible...and how? Searching on MSDN about it, didn't give any results.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 904

Answers (7)

Dave Arkell
Dave Arkell

Reputation: 3980

You can use the BITS downloader that Microsoft Update uses to download the files in the background.

Upvotes: 2

eKek0
eKek0

Reputation: 23319

You can't, as others said. You can build your own updater, as many companys does.

Upvotes: 0

Mac
Mac

Reputation: 8339

You can't do that via Microsoft Update, but you could check out how Paint .NET or .NET Reflector implemented their auto-update feature.

Upvotes: 1

Joe Chin
Joe Chin

Reputation: 452

You should check out Microsoft ClickOnce

Upvotes: 4

PowerApp101
PowerApp101

Reputation: 1826

Windows Update is only for Microsoft products. You can't host your software on it.

Upvotes: 0

blowdart
blowdart

Reputation: 56550

It isn't, unless it's a hardware driver which has gone through MS certification and is published on Microsoft update. The MS update web site is closed and limited to MS software and some hardware partners.

Upvotes: 1

cpjolicoeur
cpjolicoeur

Reputation: 13106

As far as I know, the Windows Update feature is only for Microsoft supplied software and updates

Upvotes: 0

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