NETUpdate Administrator and Client
Features List

(Updated 05/07/2004)

Listed here are the features currently included and Features to be added later

Administration Application Current Features

• Application Details extraction
  Once you start a new project and select the Main EXE, OCX or DLL the Copyright details, verison stamp and other information is extracted and automatically recorded for the NETUpdate client.
• Scans the source directory for new files added since last time you published your update.
• Choose your own custom colours, font, logo and background images and store them in the configuration file for distribution with your product.
• Compression of settings in the Confifuration file
• Choose the destination locations for each individual file.
• Choose to self register OCX and DLL files.
• Check the look of the Download configuration file before you publish.
• Use sub folders for each version you publish.
• Copies all the selected files to the output folder.
• Creates the Server download file in the output folder.
• Copies the Configuration file and renames to NETUpdate.npf in your output folder.
• Set optimal download buffer size
• Upload via FTP, allows publishing directly to your web server.
• Update file list is in an xml file.

Administration Application Future releases

• Choose to zip selected files when you publish.
• Zip muliple files into one zip archive and record locations and self register details per file.
• Zip the configuration file
• Better Compression of the configuration file.
• More Client Side Customizations.
• Logging of Publish to Seperate Log file per project
• Convert Server Redirect file to use xml
• Include removal of files.
• Update Registry entries.
• Add files from ANY location.

Client Application Current Features

• Can check for NETUpdate automatic web update software upgrades.
• Tailorable appearance via the NETUpdate Administration utility.
• Determine if a reboot is required to instal updates.
• Compatable with Windows98 and above
• Can extract zip files, move contents to specified location.

Client Application Future releases

• Support for multiple applications in one configuration file.
• Decompression of the Configuration file.
• Delete files flagged for deletion.
• License agreement before download
• Fully customizable client areas.
• Update Reason information.
• Sound Support.
• Use of Last Mofied date on files with no version stamp to determine if newer
• Check ALL files in list to determine if an update is required, not just the main file.

ActiveX Component Current Features

• Read Configuration file and allow the developer to extract the details via method calls
• Write to specific settings eg: Download URL location.
• Launch the NETUpdate automatic web update software client application if available in the application folder

ActiveX Component Future Features

• MSN Notification style popups
• Sound Support for notifiers.
• Auto check for updates and unattended Updates

These features are not final and new features will be listed as the are needed.

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