Question

I’m going to have an winform app running on a Windows Server 2012 with several users over Remote Desktop.

If I place my app in a folder, how will I update it? I guess lots of files are in use and cannot be updated.

What would you do?

Thanks
Mojo

Answer 1

I have run in to this exact issue and discovered a interesting work around. Windows will let you move a file that is in use.

What I do is I make a folder called Old in the install directory of the program, I then move the exe in to that folder and copy over my new exe.

Any new people who log on use the new exe and I give it a day to let all the old users log off (the timeout period on our RDP server kicks inactive people after 4 hours so everyone usually gets logged off overnight) and then I delete the Old folder I made at the start.