Question

I’m looking for suggestions on keeping a program that is running on a network updated. Installation consists of 15 users, each have the program on their local pc, but they all access same date from sql server.
I am looking for a clean method that would allow me to update one folder on the network and for each computer to get updated when they run the program and the programs sees a later ver on that folder on the network. (Obviously I can do this inside the program itself since it won’t allow being overwritten while opened.)

Answer 1

Another option is to create a second program that will check the network for an updated version of your application. Let’s call this program “updater.exe”.

You can run updater.exe on system startup like Adobe Reader or Sun Java do.

Or, when your application is started it can load updater.exe. If updater.exe finds an update, it can close/unload your application, download the newer version, restart your application and close itself.