I have a website on which I have published several of my applications. Right now I have to update it each time one of the applications is updated. The applications themselves check for updates so the user only visits the website if they don't have a previous version installed.
I would like to make it easier for me by creating a single executable that when downloaded and executed, will check with the database which version is the most recent and then download that one and run that setup.
Now I can make a downloader for each application, but I rather make something more universal with a parameter or argument as the difference.
For the download the 'know' which database to check for the most recent version, I need to pass on the data to the downloader. My first thought was putting that in a XML file, so I only have to generate different xml files for each application, but then it wouldn't be a single executable anymore.
My second thought was using commandline arguments like: downloader.exe databasename
But how would I do that when the file is downloaded?
Would a link like: "https://my.website.com/downloader.exe databasename" work?
How could I best do this?
rg. Eric