Creating a Service Pack for my application.

[Guest]

Hi,

Can I have your thoughts and opinions on the follow:

What is the recommended way of creating and installing a fix / service pack
for my application, and deploying it.

For example, If I have 1 exe and 10 dll's in my app. If I find a bug in one
of the dll's, how do I deploy the new dll. I want to be able to unistall the
new dll if there is a problem.
What about the version number?
Installation location?

I am using vb.net and vs2003.
I have tried all the vb.net docs but can't find an example.

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Tim

 

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Tim,

This depends on if the dlls are strong named or not. For unstrong named
assemblies, just replace the old ones with tha same name in the .exe
directory. For strong named dlls, it's better to remove the old assembly
and use Binding Redirect to redirect to the new version. It is in the
app.config file. Please check the following link for more information.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cptutorials
/html/Deploying_Versioned_Components.asp

Kevin Yu
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