In some situations, there's a simple approach. Back in 2006 I worked at a company where we deployed an n-Tier system to client sites. This means we had a server available. On that server we had a \software share. The clients all installed from that location. The clients were a very simple .exe/.dll xcopy deployment so I went with a minor upgrade story. In that scenario this worked fine:
-----Original Message----- From: Phil Wilson [mailto:phildgwil...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 February 2014 19:39 To: General discussion about the WiX toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] how to auto-update like ClickOnce in WIX WiX generates MSIs etc for you to install, but after that there's nothing running on the system except your app. The type of update you want is typically done by implementing: 1. A web service at your company site with access to a database of product guids, upgrade code guids, version, and download locations, updated as new versions become available. 2. Code in your app to call the web service passing your product code/upgrade code/version as needed to check for a higher version update or major upgrade and a way of asking the client if they want to download it. --------------- Phil Wilson On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:44 AM, Yu, Brian <b...@easyscreen.com> wrote: > Hello > > We want to write installers in WIX as it gives us lots of flexibility. 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