Update VB.NET Windows application !

[jeshra279]

Hi All, Last month I posted this question, but I think I didnt get response for that. Anyways, I would like to ask again: I am one vb.net windows application installed on my client's PC. Now my client has asked some changes in the code and re-send that application, so that he can uninstall the previous version and install the updated version. From my end, I have done the requested modification and created a Setup & Deployment project in VS2005. Now I dont want him to uninstall the previous version of that application installed on his PC. I want to update his installed application with the updated one ( which I made on my PC) without un-installing his last version. Can someone Pls let me know how to create this? Any patch building is required or not? I am new to this, though i can send him the updated exe so that he can uninstall the previous version and install the new version, but i dont want him to do...I want him to directly update his present verion of the application already installed. Anyhelp would be appreciated. Regard, R.S.

[Dave Kreskowiak]

As far as I know, the Setup and Deployment project doesn't create patches. You can it it to upgrade a previous verison of the package, so long as you have the ProductCode that it used, then the current one will uninstall the old version and install the new one. I don't use the Setup and Deployment project, so I'm surely no authority on it. I use real setup and deployment tools, such as Wise Package Studio, InnoSetup, and InstallShield.

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