/// <summary>Get update and version information from specified online file - returns a List</summary>
/// <param name="downloadsURL">URL to download file from</param>
/// <param name="versionFile">Name of the pipe| delimited version file to download</param>
/// <param name="resourceDownloadFolder">Folder on the local machine to download the version file to</param>
/// <param name="startLine">Line number, of the version file, to read the version information from</param>
/// <returns>List containing the information from the pipe delimited version file</returns>
public static List <string> getUpdateInfo(string downloadsURL, string versionFile, string resourceDownloadFolder, int startLine)
{
bool updateChecked = false;
//create download folder if it does not exist
if (!Directory.Exists(resourceDownloadFolder))
{
Directory.CreateDirectory(resourceDownloadFolder);
}
//let's try and download update information from the web
updateChecked = WebData.downloadFromWeb(downloadsURL, versionFile, resourceDownloadFolder);
//if the download of the file was successful
if (updateChecked)
{
//get information out of download info file
return(populateInfoFromWeb(versionFile, resourceDownloadFolder, startLine));
}
//there is a chance that the download of the file was not successful
else
{
return(null);
}
}
/// <summary>Download file from the web immediately</summary>
/// <param name="downloadsURL">URL to download file from</param>
/// <param name="filename">Name of the file to download</param>
/// <param name="downloadTo">Folder on the local machine to download the file to</param>
/// <param name="unzip">Unzip the contents of the file</param>
/// <returns>Void</returns>
public static void installUpdateNow(string downloadsURL, string filename, string downloadTo, bool unzip)
{
bool downloadSuccess = WebData.downloadFromWeb(downloadsURL, filename, downloadTo);
if (unzip)
{
unZip(downloadTo + filename, downloadTo);
}
}