what is the best priactise for updating client

[Ryan Liu]

Hi,

I have an Client-Server based C# application to run in an intranet. Since
there are hundred of clients, what is best way to update clients?

Should client use TCP/IP socket to poll new dll files from the server? What
about the dll already loaded by client application? Should I write another
client solely for checking and updating?

Now I manully copy all files, when I did few times, it really takes time and
effort.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[Tom Porterfield]

Hi,

I have an Client-Server based C# application to run in an intranet. Since
there are hundred of clients, what is best way to update clients?

Should client use TCP/IP socket to poll new dll files from the server? What
about the dll already loaded by client application? Should I write another
client solely for checking and updating?

Now I manully copy all files, when I did few times, it really takes time and
effort.

You might want to consider, or at least look at, the updater application
block from Microsoft. More info can be found at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/updaterv2.asp

 

[Simon Dahlbacka]

you might also want to take a look at click-once deployment

 

[Paul Cheetham]

If you're using VS2005, there is click-once deployment, where your
application is 'Published' to a web server, and the clients check if
they are the latest version at startup, and download the new copy if
they need to.
You will need to make sure you increment version numbers appropriately.


Paul