About 2 years ago I was building a .NET desktop application, and needed an easy way to allow it to auto-update itself. I looked for libraries that do that, and all I could see was either complicated, commercial, or geared towards a very particular (usually common) use case. I didn't want anything of...

After having several issues with their auto-update mechanism, 2 weeks ago the Hibernating Rhinos profilers were updated to use NAppUpdate. Once again it was proven to be a very flexible and robust library, and several updates were already pushed to hundreds (thousands?) of users without any problem....

NAppUpdate (pronounced: nap-date), a small and flexible open-source library providing consumer applications with auto-update functionality, is now being officially released, and is ready for production. About a month ago I released a first version of my local copy of the library, and posted this fir...

Any desktop applications programmer finds himself every now and then looking for a library providing an application auto-update functionality, that is flexible and easy-to-integrate. I had the intention of working on such a library for some time now, so it will do things the way I want it to. Last w...

Imagine you are working on a .NET WinForms application, and it has many small user tasks which require you to disable all input controls in your form. What happens if each of those also has quite a lot of possible exit points? returning and re-enabling the GUI in all of them is quite a pain. The fol...