What's the best way for a .NET winforms application to update itself without using ClickOnce?

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MusiGenesis picture MusiGenesis · Sep 30, 2008 · Viewed 7.3k times · Source

For technical reasons, I can't use ClickOnce to auto-update my .NET application and its assemblies. What is the best way to handle auto-updating in .NET?

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Wyatt O'Day picture Wyatt O'Day · Jul 4, 2009

We have a product that's commercial/open source: wyBuild & wyUpdate. It has patching ability and is dead simple to use.

Edit: I'm getting voted down into the negative numbers, but my post wasn't just blatant selling. Our updater, wyUpdate, is open source, written in C# and is licensed under the BSD license.

I thought it might help anyone trying to build an updater from scratch using the .NET framework.

But, vote me down if you must.

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