NetSparkle vs SparkleDotNET

Question

I want to add an autoupdate feature to my application and I discovered NetSparkle and SparkleDotNET.

Anyone know one of these libraries? What are their pros and cons?

Thanks.

Answer 1

NetSparkle (originally from CodePlex) has been forked on GitHub by jimgraham and is on active development there with many forks. Also it has packages on NuGet feed - made from one of its forks on GitHub (personally I don't know from which one, but by the name of the packages author I think it's from this fork). Documentation is poor. The system itself is stable enough.

SparkleDotNET is not in active development since 2011-11-10 and has no contributors. I have not tried it solely because of this facts.

One more alternative I found useful is NAppUpdate. It has clever author, clear infrastructure and good documentation

Choose wisely.

Answer 2

I will go with AutoUpdater.NET : Auto update library for VB.NET and C# Developer. Better documentation and easy to integrate.

I am the author of the library.

Answer 3

it looks like sparkledotnet is under dev. no help. no comments. no downloads... so i wouldn't use it.