How to manage Patch & Upgrade verion

[atulthummar]

Hi All,

First of all, I am new into advanced installer, my question is

1. When first time i am creating my product installer for example "ABC installer V 1.0 " release it to end customer, later stages if any minor error or bug issues occurred then i will have to release "Patch" right ? so it will automatically updated "ALL" the customer's system.

2. After couple of year, I want to release "ABC installer V 2.0" so what are the steps to be follow to automatically upgrade end user customer, Here one Condition applies i want to restrict upgrade from V 1.0 to V 2.0 to some of customer who don't pay money for new version
for example: If customer A and customer B are using my product "ABC installer V 1.0 ", Now i want to give newer version "ABC installer V 2.0" only to Customer A then how this will become automatically updated only to Customer A not to customer B using advanced installer.

Please provide me yours inputs.

Thanks,
Atul

[Daniel]

Hello Atul and welcome to Advanced Installer forums,

Thank you for your interest in Advanced Installer.

1. When first time i am creating my product installer for example "ABC installer V 1.0 " release it to end customer, later stages if any minor error or bug issues occurred then i will have to release "Patch" right ? so it will automatically updated "ALL" the customer's system.

Yes. You can take a look on our "Patch Authoring" tutorial.

2. After couple of year, I want to release "ABC installer V 2.0" so what are the steps to be follow to automatically upgrade end user customer,

Here are a couple of articles that should get you started with upgrades:
Windows Installer Upgrades
Upgrades Page
How do I upgrade an older version of the package?
Upgrade FAQ

Here one Condition applies i want to restrict upgrade from V 1.0 to V 2.0 to some of customer who don't pay money for new version
for example: If customer A and customer B are using my product "ABC installer V 1.0 ", Now i want to give newer version "ABC installer V 2.0" only to Customer A then how this will become automatically updated only to Customer A not to customer B using advanced installer.

In order to achieve this you can use our "Updater" tool. If you want to have a license check before upgrading you can call the updater with the -licensecheckurl command line switch.

All the best,
Daniel

[atulthummar]

Thanks Daniel for your quick response. I will try and let you know if any issues occurs.