Welcome to AppLife Update!  AppLife Update provides incredible flexibility in implementing an update process within your software application.  You can choose to use the AppLife Manager Windows service or integrate directly into your application with four built-in and ready to use update processes. Or take advantage of the flexibility provided by the AppLife Update API and easily develop your own updating user experience.

With your deployed maintenance process looking and behaving the way you want, the actions that you can utilize in maintaining your deployed installations from one version to the next is just as flexible. Many common Windows application updating activities, such as file and registry manipulation, come ready-to-use. Just drag, drop and configure them in your action list. And if you don’t find a built-in action that meets your needs, you can use the Dynamic Code Action to write your own .Net updating code or create your own reusable custom actions.  We’ll show you how.

Within this Quick Start guide, we demonstrate how to use AppLife Update to maintain your applications.  Using the AppLife Manager, a direct integration approach, or a customize AppLife Update implementation to meet your specific updating requirements.

1. AppLife Manager
   This quick start will walk through the process of creating a new application on AppLife Cloud, and publishing an initial update that will install the application on deployed systems running AppLife Manager.
   
2. Simple
   The simple quick start application implements the AppLife Update solution in its simplest form.  We enable a brand new WinForms application for updating with AppLife Update.  This implementation might just be all that you need.
   
3. Simple – WPF
   The simple WPF quick start uses the AppLife WPF updating control to implement updating features into a WPF application.
   
4. Custom Forms
   The Custom Forms application utilizes methods and events on the Update Controller to check for, download, and apply an update.  The application replaces the built-in updating user interface with a completely custom one.  The tasks that you learn in this quick start can be used to design and implement many different updating processes.
   
5. Custom Actions
   This example demonstrates how to create a custom action, as well as a corresponding custom action builder and custom action editor to provide an Update Action that will perform a text file search on the deployed client that is being updated for a designated regular expression. The results are then further manipulated with customized .Net code using a Dynamic Code Action.
   
   

After you have reviewed these quick starts, you will be well prepared to implement AppLife Update into your own applications.  Please refer to this help manual in its entirety, as well as the AppLife Update API reference, which can be accessed through the AppLife Update Help menu or Online, for more information on using the AppLife Update product to integrate an update process, and deploy software updates into your own applications.

To work through these quick starts, you will need to have AppLife Builder and Visual Studio installed on your computer. For the AppLife Manager walk through, you will need access to an AppLife AppLife Manager and an AppLife Update Cloud subscription.

If you have not already done so, install AppLife Builder on your local system.