How to make an application to install it online

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Hi,
I have made a desktop application which user installs in its local machine. There are different versions of this application. I want that the user can install the latest version which is available at any server.
If user installs any lower version there should be a message for him to install the latest version(if available on the remote server) and if the user accept that the application should connect to the server and download the latest version and install it in the user's machine.
I am not sure how to do this. Can anyone please help/guide me.

Thanks in advance

Posted 12-Aug-14 19:42pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2014-08-12T20:21:00

There are different approaches to that, but, as the question (MFC) suggests this is the Windows application, you can use Windows Installer and MSI, the files you can publish on-line.
These days, I strongly advise open-source Wix toolkit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiX[^],
http://wixtoolset.org/[^].

Actually, this product is more "legitimate" than the Setup project file, because it is perfectly complies with MSBuild project file standard and has better Visual Studio integration. Please see also my past answer:
installshield and Visual Studio 2012[^],
How to conditionally install components based on processor architecture type (32-bit or 64-bit)?[^],
How to conditionally install components based on processor architecture type (32-bit or 64-bit)?[^],
Custom setup project[^].

—SA