The Magazine Subscribe Contact Us Provide software updates via the Web 4 Oct 2000 - Updating your customers' software can cost time and money. UpdateLive from Bennet-Tec promises to help by providing automatic updates via the Internet. An INI file points to the files on your web server which may need updating. UpdateLive can check your web site for newer versions of files during the installation process itself, on a periodic basis after your application is installed or at the user's request.
Updates can run invisibly or the customer can be prompted for consent.
Before updating, you can optionally show the user a list of files that will be updated. A backup directory is created so the end-user can undo any changes if desired. UpdateLive will also registers OCXs if necessary, and can run other EXE files if needed. While the update is taking place, you can display update details or other messages contained in a text file on the server. A free demo can also be downloaded from the site.