Kinetic Jump Software, LLC - .Net Automatic Update Solution

Automatic Application Updating

AppLife Update is the perfect choice for implementing automatic network update features into your .Net applications. The AppLife Update solution lets you easily create the update process that you want for your application, drastically improving your team's response capabilities and keeping your user-base effortlessly up-to-date.

Advanced Update Engine

Our unique four-stage updating engine executes updates without sacrificing the integrity of the client system. Our exclusive preemptive permissions checking stage ensures sufficient user privileges exist before the system is modified, greatly reducing the risk of failure. During execution, all updating activity participates in the engine's update transaction ensuring reliability and robustness. Confidently update deployed applications with AppLife Update.

Update Safely and Securely

AppLife Update uses the very latest in public-private key encryption technology to ensure that the AppLife Update process does not place your client systems at risk. The cryptographic signature of each and every update package is verified after downloading. Rest assured that your published update packages cannot be altered and only updates that you published will ever be applied.

Complete Flexibility

No two applications are the same. This is why AppLife Update was designed with flexibility in mind. Along with our turn-key updating process comes an extensive API that enables completely custom updating integration as well as almost limit-less client update process activity. The flexibility designed into AppLife Update ensures a sound and robust updating process for even the most demanding .Net applications.

"AppLife Update has saved us countless hours and provides the exact functionality we needed to provide automatic updates to our existing applications. We initially had looked into developing an updating system in house and after testing AppLife Update we decided it wasn’t possible for us to build anything as feature rich as AppLife Update."

John Meade
Sleep Care Center, Inc.

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Complete, built-in update process

Add a complete update process to your application with a single method call.

Comprehensive API to customize the update process

Methods, properties, and events that .Net developers can use to easily create completely custom workflows for versioning updates, discovering updates, then downloading and applying updates.

Automate update publishing

Utilize the console application to integrate update publishing into your automated build process. MSBuild and Finalbuilder based wrapper actions are available for download.

Localized updating interface

The AppLife Update ships with localized resources for English (en), German (de), Spanish (es), French (fr), Italian (it), Japanese (jp), and traditional Chinese (zh-CHT).

Three ways to update your clients

Utilize the AppLife Update engine or use the AppLife Update distribution system to distribute and execute Msi based upgrades and patches or distribute your own custom updater executable.

Easily integrate licensing and authentication systems

Update processes are often dependent on client licensing or user authentication. AppLife Update allows for easy integration of your existing client validation systems.

Cryptographic update package signature verification

RSA public-private key signature checking is used to ensure the authenticity of all downloaded update packages. Only unaltered update packages that were created by the bearer of the corresponding private key can be applied.

Download updates using Secure Socket Layers (SSL)

Update packages can be downloaded from secure web servers over the https protocol.

Access secured network folders

Download update packages from secured network folders by passing credentials. Kerbos, Ntlm, and Challenge-Response are all supported.

Securely elevate privileges for update execution

Allow standard users to apply updates. Deploy the AppLife Update Windows service to securely elevate the execution of your AppLife Update based update packages. **Applications that utilize the Windows service require initial deployment by an administrator.

Update without Vista UAC Prompting

Utilizing the secure AppLife Update windows service, updating application on Windows Vista does not require UAC elevation. Alternatively, configure AppLife Update to request elevation through the UAC.

Transacted update execution engine

The exclusive four stage AppLife Update engine updates remote clients while maintaining system integrity.

Preemptive permissions checking

AppLife Update avoids inevitable update failure by verifying sufficient permissions exist to perform the actions defined in the update package.

Replace files, register COM assemblies, edit config (xml) files

Easily perform most of the actions necessary to update .Net applications using built-in AppLife Update actions.

Update client side databases

Provider-independent database actions allow for transacted database work during update execution.

Automatically determine changed files

AppLife Update can automatically determine the files that need to be included in your update packages by comparing your application directory with a baseline directory.

x64 Operating System Support

Update applications on 64 bit operating systems. Explicitly target the 64 bit registry and file system as well as register 64 bit or 32 bit COM components.

Extensible update action infrastructure

Perform customized updating activity on your client systems by using AppLife Update custom actions. Custom actions are easy to create in any .Net language.

Apply updates silently

Updates can be applied silently with no user interaction required.

Use any web or file server

No server intelligence is required, allowing the use of any web or file server.

Update over any common network protocol

Use ftp, http, https, UNC, or file path locations to update clients.

Download updates in the background

Updates can be downloaded in the background, without interrupting the application user.

Resume interrupted downloads

Downloads that have been interrupted can be resumed from where the previous download attempt left off.

Publish updates for specific software versions

Updates can target all previous versions, a subset of previous versions, or a specific version of released software.

Dynamically select which version to apply

When multiple updates are available for a specific version, select the appropriate version based on various client state, such as licensing.

Coordinated shutdown of all client processes

AppLife Update provides inter-process communications for you to coordinate the shutdown of application processes.

Automatically detect proxy settings

Use the default proxy settings or set manual settings to traverse network proxy servers.

Flexible application versioning

Base your application version information on an assembly version, config entry, registry setting or file content.

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