Allows you to add full control over how updates are checked, downloaded, and installed to your .NET app.
The AutomaticUpdater and AutomaticUpdaterBackend types exposes the following members. A few of the properties and events are specific to either the AutomaticUpdater type or the AutomaticUpdaterBackend type; we've made a note of such cases.
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Cancel | Cancel the checking, downloading, or extracting currently in progress. |
| ForceCheckForUpdate | Check for updates forcefully. |
| InstallNow | Proceed with the download and installation of pending updates. |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Animate | Gets or sets whether to slide the AutomaticUpdater out when you hover over it and in when you hover away. This property is for the AutomaticUpdater type only. |
| Arguments | Gets or sets the arguments to pass to your app when it's being restarted after an update. |
| Changes | Gets the changes for the new update. |
| ClosingForInstall | Gets if this AutomaticUpdater has hidden this form and preparing to install an update. |
| DaysBetweenChecks | Gets or sets the number of days to wait before automatically re-checking for updates. |
| GUID | Gets the GUID (Globally Unique ID) of the automatic updater. It is recommended you set this value (especially if there is more than one exe for your product). |
| KeepHidden | Gets or sets whether the AutomaticUpdater control should stay hidden even when the user should be notified. (Not recommended). |
| LastCheckDate | Gets the date the updates were last checked for. |
| MenuItem | Gets and sets the MenuItem that will be used to check for updates. |
| ServiceName | Gets or sets the service to start after the update. This property is for the AutomaticUpdaterBackend type only. |
| ToolStripItem | Gets and sets the ToolStripItem that will be used to check for updates. |
| Translation | The translation for the english strings in the AutomaticUpdater control. See Translating the AutomaticUpdater. |
| UpdateStepOn | Gets the update step the AutomaticUpdater is currently on. |
| UpdateType | Gets or sets how much this AutomaticUpdater control should do without user interaction. |
| Version | Gets the version of the new update. |
| WaitBeforeCheckSecs | Gets or sets the seconds to wait after the form is loaded before checking for updates. |
| wyUpdateCommandline | Gets or sets the arguments to pass to wyUpdate when it is started to check for updates. |
| wyUpdateLocation | Gets or sets the relative path to the wyUpdate (e.g. wyUpdate.exe or SubDir\wyUpdate.exe) |
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| BeforeChecking | Event is raised before the update checking begins. |
| BeforeDownloading | Event is raised before the downloading of the update begins. |
| BeforeInstalling | Event is raised before the installation of the update begins. |
| Cancelled | Event is raised when checking or updating is cancelled. |
| CheckingFailed | Event is raised when the checking for updates fails. |
| CloseAppNow | Event is raised after you or your user invoked InstallNow(). You should close your app as quickly as possible (because wyUpdate will be waiting). This event overrides the default behaviors of the AutomaticUpdater, which are:
|
| ClosingAborted | Event is raised when an update can't be installed and the closing is aborted. |
| DownloadingOrExtractingFailed | Event is raised when the update fails to download or extract. |
| ProgressChanged | Event is raised when the current update step progress changes. |
| ReadyToBeInstalled | Event is raised when the update is ready to be installed. |
| UpdateAvailable | Event is raised when a new update is found. |
| UpdateFailed | Event is raised when an update fails to install. |
| UpdateSuccessful | Event is raised when an update installs successfully. |
| UpToDate | Event is raised when the latest version is already installed. |