updated my app.exe

[ron9999]

Hi All,
I try to let the user updated theapp.exe automatically.
In the app.exe I have a form "updated" where he can download a file app.zip from our webserver.
The app.zip will be downloadet via ftp and then unziped in a tempdir -that works-.
Now I need to rename the old app.exe to app.001 and copy the new app.exe from tempdir to the appdir.

I thought to show the user a message with "You have to rerun the program ...."

but how can I do this job? To I need a script or a renameandcopy.exe

TIA for any help
Ronald Weinrich

 

[craigsboyd]

Check out the RENAME command in VFP. It will not only rename your exe but also move that file from the temp folder for you. As for the unzipping of the file first, if you haven't got that part worked out check out the FAQ section of this forum and look for SAWZIP.

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[wgcs]

Really, you need two programs:
1) A loader
2) the real program (which can be an EXE or an APP)

The user should always use the same loader. The loader looks for updates, if there is one, it downloads it (or if the user previously downloaded the update inside your main app, the loader should find it; perhaps right next to the main app, but with a different name).

The Loader can then replace the Main App with the updated copy (or not, if no updated copy is available), then The Loader Launches the main app.

 

[ron9999]

that's it wgcs, I just read Rick Strahl's "Automatic Application Updates over the Web"
the way how he is doing it:

http://www.west-wind.com/presentations/wwCodeUpdate/codeupdate.asp

he has a class which shutdown the app.exe launch a runupdate app and do all the job.
which is better?
make a startup or Rick Strahl's?
Ron

 

[Mike Lewis]

Ronald,

You might also want to read my article, "Installing new copies of VFP executables", at:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk/foxst-30.htm

Mike


Mike Lewis
Edinburgh, Scotland

My Visual Foxpro web site:

http://www.ml-consult.demon.co.uk

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http://www.ml-crystal.com

 

[ron9999]

it's cool Mike, now I have to make the decision.
Thank you
Ronald