Automatically checking for a new version of my application

Question

Trying to honor a feature request from our customers, I\'d like that my application, when Internet is available, check on our website if a new version is available.

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Answer 1

On the server you could just have a simple file "latestversion.txt" which contains the version number (and maybe download URL) of the latest version. The client then just needs to read this file using a simple HTTP request (yes, to port 80) to retrieve http://your.web.site/latestversion.txt, which you can then parse to get the version number. This way you don't need any fancy server code --- you just need to add a simple file to your existing website.