Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-08 Thread Rob Mensching
currently doesn't do that? > > Alain > > -Original Message- > From: Steven Ogilvie [mailto:steven.ogil...@titus.com] > Sent: June 4, 2013 11:56 > To: Neil Sleightholm; afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows > Installer XML toolset. > Subject: RE: [WiX-use

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
om: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:n...@x2systems.com] Sent: June-04-13 11:52 AM To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Steven Ogilvie Subject: RE: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P] For some reason the online help doesn'

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-04 Thread Steven Ogilvie
11:52 AM To: afor...@cmu.edu; General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.; Steven Ogilvie Subject: RE: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P] For some reason the online help doesn't mention it but it is in the help file, go to the inde

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-04 Thread Neil Sleightholm
Sent: 04 June 2013 16:42 To: 'Steven Ogilvie'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P] There's a Burn Update element? Uh oh. Maybe this is part of the problems

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: RE: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P] Classification: Public What about the Burn Update element? -Original Message- From: Alain Forget [mailto:afor...@cmu.edu] Sent: June-04-13 11:00 AM To: &#

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product [P]

2013-06-04 Thread Steven Ogilvie
for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product Are you looking for updates to your own software that the user is installing, or third-party software (like the Java Runtime Environment)? We do the former in our so

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
e latter, we just bundle the current version with our own software installer using burn. Alain -Original Message- From: Paul Brewster [mailto:pbrews...@starpower.net] Sent: June 3, 2013 22:30 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the l

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product

2013-06-04 Thread Paul F Brewster
version with our own software installer using burn. Alain -Original Message- From: Paul Brewster [mailto:pbrews...@starpower.net] Sent: June 3, 2013 22:30 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product Does anyo

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product

2013-06-04 Thread Alain Forget
burn. Alain -Original Message- From: Paul Brewster [mailto:pbrews...@starpower.net] Sent: June 3, 2013 22:30 To: WiX-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product Does anyone have a suggestion/sample code for

Re: [WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product

2013-06-03 Thread Hoover, Jacob
I'd try to extend on what Rob started. A simple web request returning rss/XML with an extensible schema. If the version on the web is greater than the installed version, download the updated bundle and execute. I'm still pondering a generic way to integrate this into burn that is both configur

[WiX-users] [WIX-users] Asking a website about the latest release of a product

2013-06-03 Thread Paul Brewster
Does anyone have a suggestion/sample code for checking a web site for the latest release of a product? Paul Brewster 5501 Hawthorne Pl, NW Washington, DC 20016-2668 H (202) 362 6324 C (301) 351 1949 -- How Servi