A diferent Update...

[mrlinx]

I'm new to InstallAware, and let me say It's a wonderfull installer.

My question is... I'm deploying a single exe installer with a mine application... But my main application executable is still in big development...
How can I create a method to deploy every new Build of the main executable?

I was thinking about the InstallAware Updates, but I dont want to create/build a installer for every application build...
Is there an way to make this in a simple way without using a secundary installer... probably the best way is to modify the Updater code... to DownloadFile/CheckBuild/etc...

Is there anyone with a say?

[MichaelNesmith]

I'd do the following (InstallAware's flexibility helps here):

1) Schedule a task to run every day.
2) When that task runs, fire up your setup using a special command line parameter.
3) In your setup when you detect this command line parameter, display your custom update interface, informing users the option to download it.
4) Directly download the file using the Download File command into the target folder. OR, download the file to a temporary location (such as $SUPPORTDIR$) and then use the MoveFileA API or the CopyFileA API in kernel32.dll to finally place that file to the target folder.

The standard update script will be somewhat inappropriate for this, since you want a lean-and-mean update mechanism, without reinstallation or patching or re-building. So just build your own script