wyUpdate 1.3

With the wyUpdate Designer you customize the look of the wyUpdate Client, visually design updates to your product, and upload your newly created update to your website.

Then, using the wyUpdate Client, your users can update your software quickly and easily. The wyUpdate Client handles all of the nitty-gritty details of downloading and updating your software so you don't have to.

Major Features:

1. Visually Design your Updates:
   • Drag & drop files directly from Windows Explorer, add registry changes with a few clicks, and upload your updates to your site all within the same interface.
2. Tiny Update Patches:
   • The wyUpdate Professional Designer has the ability to compare your new version with your older versions. So instead of including whole files in the updates, wyUpdate Professional creates tiny update files with only the changes to get from one version to the next.
3. .NET Optimizations:
   • The wyUpdate Designer automatically detects any assemblies made with Microsofts .NET Framework 2.0 (or above). When the update is installed on your users computer, the wyUpdate Client optimizes these .NET assemblies to start and run fast using NGEN.
4. Multi-lingual wyUpdate Client:
   • The wyUpdate Client has been tranlated into 13 languages: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, and Swedish. Also, the wyUpdate Designer has a translation editor for creating and editing language files.
5. Secure Updating:
   • Your users will always have working software. For instance, if the user cancels a software update, or an unforseen error occurs while updating, the wyUpdate Client quickly and cleanly restores the previous version of the software. It never leaves extras files or registry lying around.
6. Windows Vistas User Account Control (UAC):
   • No worrying about Windows Vistas troublesome UAC, the wyUpdate Client handles it in stride. Limited users can check for updates without needing Administrator privileges and, if an update is found, Windows UAC prompts the user for an administrator password.
   • The wyUpdate Client also handles user access particulars on all other Windows versions (2000, XP, etc.). A user will always be able to check for updates, and will only be prompted for a password if the user doesn't have access to the folders or registry that need to be updated.

Enhancements:

• Manage past and future versions of your software
• Create patch updates (a.k.a. delta updates) for reduced bandwidth usage
• Undo and Redo all actions in the Designer
• Improved Designer and file type icons
• Proxy settings overhaul
• Faster performance all-around
• New destination locations (e.g. Desktop, Start Menu, etc.)
• Can now create Desktop & Start Menu shortcuts
• The wyUpdate Client is now open source ( http://wyday.com/wyupdate/opensource/ )
• The client.wyc can now be included with updates
• Version numbers were parsed incorrectly
• The wyUpdate Client can now download from HTTPS sites with self-signed SSL certificates
• All registry types are now supported (binary data, 32-bit numbers, 64-bit numbers, etc.)

Requirements: none