The AppLife Builder application is used to build AppLife packages. Using AppLife Builder, a package is created by adding AppLife Actions to the action list in your project. When you build a package, all the actions in the action list are processed, and all of the new files and instructions defined in the action list are packaged up into an AppLife package.  This is a file named major.minor.build.revision.zip.  The update package is compressed with gzip compression algorithm included in the .NET framework base class library, but given the zip extension so that web servers won’t block them.

 

To create a package, click the Create an Update… button.

 

1. Set the Update version of the new update.
   Note: This value can be automatically set by referencing the assembly version or file version of a designated file. See Project Properties
   
2. Define the previous versions that can successfully apply the new update.
   
3. Write any summary text information that you would like the user to see. (This information is available from the Update Controller when the update is discovered).

 

 

4. Select the appropriate access level for the new update package.

 

 

5.  Click the Build button to build and publish the new update.