Starting the updated application at the end of the update?

[roscofil]

Hello Ravib
Please excuse my (probably) trivial question:
I am successfully using your wonderful AutoUpdated.NET tool in a forced update mode and I'd like to close the installer and restart the application once the update has been downloaded./extracted

Reading your docs, I figured that this can (maybe) be done using AutoUpdater.ApplicationExitEvent. Is this right and, if so, do you just fire the new application using Process.Start and closing the installer with Application.Exit?

How about creating some sort of an "DownloadCompleted event in which this could be done?

Thanks again and best regards from France,

Philippe

[ravibpatel]

ApplicationExitEvent fires when download completes and installer or ZipExtractor is launched for update as shown here. So you don't need to fire the installer using Process.Start as it will automatically do that. You just have to exit the app gracefully.

[roscofil]

Hmmm…Not sure I get it here: what I would like to achieve is restart my app once the update is complete. How can it be done?

[ravibpatel]

If you are using a zip file as an update file, then it should automatically do that if the executable name is the same as the previous one. If it was changed, then you can just supply the relative path to executable in your XML, and it will execute that one.

<executable>bin\AutoUpdaterTest.exe</executable>

[roscofil]

Hello again,
Maybe I'm not clear enough. I'll try to specify what I do:

1. My app is packaged within a Visual Studio Installer Project, so it consists of setup.exe and SetupMyApp.msi
2. My update.xml looks like:

1.2025.8.10 https://mydomain.org/SetupMyApp.msi true

3. When launching MyApp, the update process runs fine, the setup program is successfully launched and run but
4. what I'd like to see is that MyApp be re-launched after SetupMyApp has completed...

Hope I made myself clear enough :-)

Sorry for not being a professional coder...

[roscofil]

Edit:
The xml file is:

1.2025.8.11 https://mydomain.org/SetupMyApp.msi true

[roscofil]

Ooops: can't set the xml file correctly here...First parm is "version", second is "url", third is "mandatory"

[ravibpatel]

You have to handle launching the application from MSI file as it is responsible for updating the application in this case. There is no way to handle the launching after third party installer finishes. If you use zip file instead, it will automatically launch the app as it is handled by AutoUpdater.NET.