communicating version advancement Information to users

[alpony01]

Hello people,..i have seen that with many applications written in other languages,everytime you open them you are informed of the availability of a new version of the application(if available),,what would be the smartest way to do this using labview vis,in otherwords what is the best way to communicate version advancement information to  users of a given application without using emails or anything of that kind?Thank you.

[GerdW]

Hi alpony,

usually those other applications contact a webserver to ask for the currently available version.

Then they compare that information with it's own version number.

You can do the same with your LabVIEW program!

[Sam_Sharp]

You might also want to look at the Deploy 3rd party toolkit - it replaced the NI installer builder and allows you to build version checking and auto-updating into your applications.