(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); I've seen in the programming inquery section that there's a few people wanting an auto updater for their tools and stuff.


What you need

• A direct download file host (dropbox)
  
• A pastebin account
  
• C#
  
• a brain

We'll need a file host. I would personally suggest dropbox for this and that's what we'll be using for this tutorial.

After you've assumingly downloaded and installed dropbox + made an account, you can go to C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\Dropbox and copy your updated file in there.

right click on it and press Shark Dropbox link. Keep it in your clipboard, we're now going to create a .txt in that same directory (if you're not using dropbox then use pastebin, make sure you use an account when you paste it because you'll need to edit the link)

on the first line put your latest version number
paste the link on the second line at the end of the link change dl=0 to dl=1, this is crucial to the dropbox download.
if you're using pastebin make sure you get the raw link

now with all that out of the way, we can begin adding our auto updater in.

    

        int thisVersion = 1;

        void checkForUpdates() {

            string[] lns = new System.Net.WebClient().DownloadString("TXT FILE LINK OR DROPBOX LINK THAT ENDS IN DL=1").Split('\n';

            if (int.Parse(lns[0]) > thisVersion) {

                new System.Net.WebClient().DownloadFile(lns[1], Application.ExecutablePath.Insert(Application.ExecutablePath.Length - 4, " " + thisVersion.ToString())); //this isn't async so it'll pause the thread

                System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(Application.ExecutablePath.Insert(Application.ExecutablePath.Length - 4, " " + thisVersion.ToString()));

                Application.Exit();//I know it's not pretty but I'm doing this on a website so clearly it wont be pretty

            }

        }

So at the end you should have a txt file that looks a bit like this

    

1

https://www.dropbox.com/s/gawykghypvbnda5/whatyoucalledit.txt?dl=1

If you want to update your application just edit the .txt and change 1 to 2 and so on and make sure in your updated version you change thisVersion to whatever the latest version is. (it can't be like 1.1 it has to be a whole number like 2 and 3)
I hope this helps anyone that requires it.

Baisicly you just need to know C#
I mean System.Net and arrays and everything are stuff in C# That people should know..
Then it's just working on logic like
If version on pastebin is bigger than the tool version -> Do something..

There are multiple people asking how to make an auto updater, this is NGU mango, not stackexchange.

Stil, they can expand their knowledge and learn how to do it
It's not that hard...

I gave up trying to teach people a while back. I was going to make a C++ tutorial on how to do something interesting in the hope that people would try C++ and try to expand off it but I know no one will.

Ha, if they dont try to learn new stuff in C#
They will definitely not going to learn C++.

cant open the link

What link?

If your talking about the drop box link it's not a real link he made that as an example

Lolll