version control

[shetlandbob]

Hello I was wondering if anyone can give some ideas? (i appeaer to be out of them!)

I have a project that creates an executable run.exe (say), that will be installed in the users C drive. However the developer will release new versions on the run.exe file periodically which will be stored in

network-drive/project/release/run.exe (say)

I was planning on checking the dates of the two executables when run.exe is launched - hence there would be a difference if a new version has been released - then I could initiate a process to update the local version of run.exe (by exiting run.exe and calling a different program update.exe (also local) which copies the network version local. However I dont know how to get the date file attributes of the local exe (as I cant open it since I am executing it).

Any ideas on how this could be done? Is there a built in version number system in Visual Studio.Net?? If so can anyone point me in that direction? And how is it used?

Phew, any help much appreciated (as always!)

Bob

 

[PerFnurt]

The simplest solution that springs to mind is simply using xcopy, like

xcopy srcfile dest /D /Y

where the /D switch results in copy only being performed if srcfile is newer then the one in dest.

Open a console and type help xcopy for more info.

/Per

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