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AutomaticUpdater control

The AutomaticUpdater control is included with wyBuild and it can be included with your applications royalty free. It works with Visual Studio 2005 through Visual Studio 2019 and .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.x (i.e. 4.0, 4.5, etc.). Download wyBuild now. It works with all .NET languages (C#, VB.NET, etc.)

If you're not making a .NET app then you can still use wyUpdate to update your app. Read one of the following articles:

• For GUI apps: How to Silently Check for Updates
• For Windows Service apps: How to Silently update a Windows Service

Using AutomaticUpdater in your app

After you've downloaded and installed wyBuild, the AutomaticUpdater takes only a few minutes to set up in your application.

• Tutorial for Windows Forms apps
• Tutorial for Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) apps
• Tutorial for Windows Services and Console apps

After you've added the AutomaticUpdater control to your application, it's a simple matter of including wyUpdate.exe & client.wyc files to your application and releasing it to your users.

Watch the video intro

Get the C# source code

To top it all off, the AutomaticUpdater is completely open source (LGPL license).

Download the AutomaticUpdater 2.6.18 source code.