CodeBetter.Com
CodeBetter.Com
RSS 2.0 via Feedburner
           Do you Twitter? Follow us @CodeBetter

Steve Hebert's Development Blog

Steve's Blog - From .Net to dotMath and everything in between.

Exploring BITS and the Software Update Services

I've been doing some work with the BITS SDK and understanding that tool a little better.  So far, I'm finding it to be fairly straight forward and efficient - but I'm not hitting a lot of traffic or scenarios at it just yet.

After reading about Software Update Services (SUS), I wish Microsoft would open this framework so I can make the next step in my software updates.  Ultimately, I'd like to have the same capability that Windows Update provides by enabling monitoring of software updates and automatically notifying users of new updates.

As I dig further, I'll continue blogging on what I find along the way to solving this problem.


Published May 24 2005, 07:12 AM by shebert
Filed under:

Comments

Brendan Tompkins said:

Steve,

I've got an app that uses the AppUpdater block (which uses BITS) and have been okay with it so far (except don't test it using terminal services cause it won't work!). But at a recent MSDN event, I saw a demo of ClickOnce that made my mouth water! It's so vastly better than the AppUpdater..

Anyhow, it sounds like you need something different, but I for one think that ClickOnce could possibly be the killer app for windows.

B
# May 24, 2005 8:47 AM
Check out Devlicio.us!

Our Sponsors

Free Tech Publications