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AppLife Update is a comprehensive updating solution for software applications.

Create & Publish
Update your software easily using AppLife Update actions, Windows Installer files, or your own updating application.

AppLife Update Action Lists
Replace files, register COM components, modify Xml documents and more by adding our ready-to-use actions into an update project. Perform any custom actions your application requires with our extremely easy to use custom action infrastructure. If you love .Net, you’ll love making custom actions with AppLife Update.

Windows Installer Updates
Deploy your Msi and Msp updates. AppLife Update will package these files into an update package and deploy them to your clients. Take advantage of our flexible update deployment architecture to accomplish your updates.

Automated Processes
Using the AppLife Update command line utility, you can easily automate building and publishing your software updates. Integrate building your updates right into your build process. MSBuild Actions and FinalBuilder actions also available.

The AppLife Update process is very transparent. AppLife Update compiles all of the files that are necessary to update your software into an update package and publishes the package to any web or file server. Keep peace-of-mind that your application is secure as each update package is signed using public-private key cryptography. Your software will only apply updates that originate from you.

Discover & Download

Integrate automatic update features into your .Net applications using the AppLife Update Controller. The Update Controller does all of the work of discovering and downloading updates for you. You can retrieve updates from any file or web server.

Programming Your Application
The Update Controller allows you to easily implement updating features with a single line of code. Simple and yet extremely powerful, the flexible AppLife Update architecture also allows you to totally customize the user experience. You can check for updates synchronously or asynchronously from within your own forms. You can handle events during the update process that allow you to perform custom tasks such as checking licensing or saving unfinished work. You are in total control of the process.

Update From any Server
Any file server can operate as your update server. There are NO specific server requirements to use AppLife Update. Use http, ftp, UNC, or file paths for serving up your updates. Use Windows servers or Linux servers.

Downloading Updates
Use the standard AppLife Update download form or create your own custom form. AppLife Update downloading is easily customized by using our downloading methods. Automatically detect proxy settings. AppLife Update makes it very easy to integrate safe and reliable automatic network updating features into your applications.

The Update Controller can be freely distributed without royalties with your software. The Update Controller API is fully documented and the software includes three Quick Start example applications that demonstrate implementation of the most common features. All this combined with fanatical customer support makes learning and integrating AppLife Update extremely quick and easy.

Validate & Apply

The AppLife Update Controller validates every downloaded update package to ensure integrity and source.

Cryptographic Validation
After the update package is downloaded from your update server, the Update Controller in your application validates the update by checking its signature with the application's public cryptographic key.

Shutdown All Instances
Applying an update first closes all instances of the application being updated so that its files can be replaced. Before closing, you can perform tasks such as saving work in progress. If any instance is not ready for closing, you can even cancel the update process.

Vista UAC Ready
With AppLife Update action list updates, your automatic update process is ready for Windows Vista and the UAC.

Elevated Privileges
The AppLife Update Service can elevate user privileges during the application of your AppLife Update action list updates. Elevating privileges allows standard users to update your software without administrative support. AppLife Update makes it easy to deploy the service with your software by including a Merge Module that installs the service and registers your application for elevation. The AppLife Update service will only update applications that are administratively registered.

AppLife Update is a professional grade automatic updating solution for Microsoft .Net applications. .Net developers will find implementing AppLife Update to be extremely intuitive and easy to learn, providing lower implementation costs over competing products. And with no special server or network requirements and no price scaling per client, your return on investment makes AppLife Update an extremely attractive updating solution.

Licensing

Devlopers and Build Engineers that create and publish updates need a user license. The Update Controller that is included with client software can be freely distributed without royalties.

System Requirements

Windows 2000, XP, Vista, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003 .Net Framework 2.0