{"id":2884,"date":"2009-08-21T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.simple-talk.com\/uncategorized\/net-reflector-support-why-does-net-reflector-auto-update-itself\/"},"modified":"2016-07-28T10:49:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T10:49:43","slug":"net-reflector-support-why-does-net-reflector-auto-update-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/blogs\/net-reflector-support-why-does-net-reflector-auto-update-itself\/","title":{"rendered":".NET Reflector Support: Why does .NET Reflector auto-update itself?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re asked about this fairly regularly, so I thought it was about time I posted up our position on it here. There are two main reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The auto-update means that we can roll out improvements to <em>all<\/em> users. So far, that&#8217;s meant the occasional bug fix, but for some time we&#8217;ve been working on some big improvements. These include new functionality, along with fixes for a lot of the bug reports we&#8217;ve received. We aim to get this out early next year, and everybody will receive the benefit of this update.<\/li>\n<li>Support: having only one version in the wild makes supporting .NET Reflector, which is <em>extremely<\/em> popular, a much more manageable task. This really goes back to the first reason: if we fix a problem everybody gets the fix and hopefully everybody&#8217;s happy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>We are always looking at making things better though so, if you&#8217;ve had a problem with the auto-update, please let us know about it and we&#8217;ll see what we can do to improve matters.<\/p>\n<p>On a side-note, we are occasionally asked what we use for the auto-update function, and whether people can use this in their own applications. Unfortunately the answer to this is no, because it&#8217;s our own proprietary code, but if you are after this kind of functionality, I&#8217;d recommend Microsoft&#8217;s own ClickOnce deployment, which ships with the .NET framework:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/wh45kb66.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/library\/wh45kb66.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re asked about this fairly regularly, so I thought it was about time I posted up our position on it here. There are two main reasons: The auto-update means that we can roll out improvements to all users. So far, that&#8217;s meant the occasional bug fix, but for some time we&#8217;ve been working on some&#8230;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221714,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24853,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/24853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}