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C0D3Z3R0 Pro Posts: 166 | Does anyone know how I can download a text file or open a text file from the web in visual basic? I'm wanting to do this so that my program can check for an update using the text file that will have the version number in it and if the version is higher than the programs version then it will display a message saying an update is available and offer the user to download an updated version of the program... | ||
b_w_johan Regular Posts: 56 | create small server-client protocol... on startup program tcp connect to youre server C= client S= Server C) login to server S) Identify C) v:0.0.0 S) well on youre choise send OK OLD if sended old to the client let it popup some message if you really like to use that read from file do same thing but instead of sending ok/old let it send a new version number you compare to ini (ini = simplest way of creating a file as far as i know now hehe) don't know if its gonna help but i would do something like this i guess.... b_w_johan --edit can't you use the webbrowser omponent and not use .txt but .html instead of youre comparing thingy ?? | ||
C0D3Z3R0 Pro Posts: 166 | I would use the web browser component but I don't know how I could read what is on it.. maybe you could show me a small example or something? For the server... It would mean leaving my comp on 24/7 and would waste bandwidth with it having to connect to me all the time where if it's on a website they're normally online all the time and have fast connections to the net.. | ||
Meka][Meka Unstopable Posts: 700 | alredy showed u something similar in vb7...cy. | ||
C0D3Z3R0 Pro Posts: 166 | Yeah, I need it in vb6 though | ||
dzadzuks Ametuar Posts: 135 | hmz... well i see that nobody wants to write this thing. so i wrote one quick with MS Internet Transfer component, here goes dzadzu code:
/dzadzuks |