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Self updating software is capable of replacing itself or parts of itself with newer versions of all or specific program parts, sometimes omitting any user interaction.

Self updating software is capable of replacing itself or parts of itself with newer versions of all or specific program parts, sometimes omitting any user interaction.

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How to refresh video view every 10 seconds in android?

I want to update a view every 10 seconds, but how would I go about that? How would I go about that? I've seen some samples use "Run()" and "Update()", but that doesn't seem to help when I try it, any ideas? Right now I have: @Override protected…
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Updates versus compile time debugging. How to stop the oddities?

Are we reduced to ClickOnce to manage our application state for our users? We use our own installer and Visual Patch currently. When our users update using our Visual Patch download (we can reproduce this) we get errors from the updated versions…
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My Android App doesn't automatically push updates

This is a publication issue! I've made my app, and I've published it on the Google Play Store. Problem is, whenever I want to update the application, it works fine, but I've noticed on my clients' devices that the app doesn't automatically update.…
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Python Update and Save During Execution

I was not sure how to phrase this question's title. Is there a method in Python that would take input from the terminal and write that input into the script and save that change? In other words the script would be self updating. The user enters…
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Start another batch file with multiple parameters with the start command?

Is it possible to start another batch file and pass along multiple parameters with spaces, using the start command? Here is how my program currently works: main program starts > sees its outdated > calls updater (data1.exe) > updater copies new…
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Self updating application in vb.net

I want my application to self-update if there is a different size executable available on the remote server. The problem I got is that when I kill the process to replace the application executable, nothing more happends - nothing more is executing…
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Is it possible to run Google Omaha on Google App Engine?

What is the experience using the Google App Engine (GAE) platform to host a Google Omaha server for serving the updates? Technically, I think it could be done by using the Blobstore API, but I haven't found anything online...
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Adding "PushLink" jar to my app to make it self-updating

At first, I want to say that I'm beginner in Android programming. I need my application to be self-updating so I was trying to add the jar file from http://push-link.com/ to my application to make it self-updating. I've added the jar (this one) to…
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how to write Java Swing self updater (non Java Web Start solution)?

check server for a directory containing updates. download the jars to current application directory. notify user to restart app. My concern is with overwriting the old files while the java application is running. for example myapp.jar and other…
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Synchronizing data between two tables in a certain way

PostgreSQL. I have two tables. I add data to the first table time by time using insert for all columns. Table1: CREATE TABLE purchases ( id INTEGER, name VARCHAR, qty INTEGER, date TIMESTAMP, price NUMERIC, about VARCHAR ) Table2: CREATE TABLE…
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Using a chart as progress bar via a Userform

So I'm writing a macro that will have a few minutes of runtime. To let the user know that progress is being made and their excel isn't frozen, I want to show a progress bar. I am aware of how a classic progress bar works, however I tried making a…
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How to force os.stat re-read file stats by same path

I have a code that is architecturally close to posted below (unfortunately i can't post full version cause it's proprietary). I have an self-updating executable and i'm trying to test this feature. We assume that full path to this file will be in…
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C++ Self-updater with Shell / CreateProcess()

I would like to make a self updater in c++. I have seen this post of how to delete itself after execution. How to write a program in C++ such that it will delete itself after execution? I would like my program to run this powershell code after…
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How to create a self updating javascript script

Hi, I would like to create a self-updating js script that checks for new version and if there's a new one it updates... it could check if theres a change from a url (for example github raw link) or maybe check the version from a url and if he finds…
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Updating Appending List to a txt file

Hello currently i am studying python and i wanted to know on how you can have a list that is being appended if there is a change constantly to a txtfile. Wording is a hard here is the code…
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