Comments on: What’s the best way to check for updates in my program?

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[...] 10. Check out the great discussion and Mariodlg’s approved answer to TheFinder’s inquiry about the best way to check for updates in his program. [...]

By: thefinder

thefinder — Fri, 27 May 2011 11:47:31 +0000

I tried to post this as a new post but got the error msg, that the site had a programming error and it would not let me, so I posted here.
Ok folks, here we go again, I hope. Yesterday I learned about a new module in Visual Basic called Microsoft Internet transfer control, new to me anyways, And it was to get me information from the net to my program, now I’d like to learn how to go the other way, I want to put data in a file that is sitting on the root of my server. Can you assist in showing me this procedure? Thank you in advance for your time and patience in this matter. I can do it locally but don’t know how or what the procedure is for putting data in a file on the Internet.
Oh, yea, I would like to learn both append and write data.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:34:38 +0000

Yes Mariodlg,
Thank you, it’s working now just the way I wanted it to work, Thanks to you and others from this site. I was originally thinking way too complicated of means using PHP files, etc and it’s all do-a-ble with out that, but only a simple .txt file and the Wonderful Microsoft internet transfer control, that’s a new one for me, but a very good control tool, of which now I will use many times. Thank you again for your assistance and knowledge.

By: mariodlg

mariodlg — Thu, 26 May 2011 22:04:47 +0000

Don’t forget to put DoEvents instruction to do this in background.

Great question -> great answers!

Thanks to Carlos for trying out the code, enrich and ensure its functionality.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:56:24 +0000

I agree totally with you Carlosdl this was great team work, almost brings me back to the day when I was at work, very nice of all of you to assist me in this. I just did some coding and it’s working just as I wanted it to do, so now I’ll have to transpose to the actual programs that it will be going to and hope it all goes well there. One more big Thank you to all of your who assisted, it was very nice working with you.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:42:27 +0000

Great.

This was a nice team work

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:30:21 +0000

I guess I can work with this, I can now just open the local file in background and then do a comparison of file dates and then act accordingly. Thank you all very much for your help. I do believe this will work for what I’m trying to do.

By: carlosdl

carlosdl — Thu, 26 May 2011 21:08:33 +0000

Ok, that is simpler. Use a string variable, instead of a byte array: Try this:

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim data As StringDim urltofile As String

    urltofile = "http:///version.txt"
    data = Inet1.OpenURL(urltofile, icString)

    MsgBox (data)

End Sub

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:28:52 +0000

Ok, it’s getting close, now it does get the file date from a text file, and it writes that date to a file on my c:/ drive, so were half way there, thanks to all who assisted thus far,
What I want now it for it not to write to file, but to msgbox a msgbox of this data for now. If / after I get that, then I can modify the msgbox.
The earlier problem seems to be that in VB6 the open and closed quotes are a different character and because I was just testing code, I did a copy and paste.

By: thefinder

thefinder — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:11:25 +0000

Hi Carlosdl
it’s been a while,
I’m using VB4 I have VB6 but for reasons too long to report here, I like and use vb4
it also has the Microsoft internet tools (module) mentioned,
I will try / test your code in VB4 and report back, thank you for your efforts.