What's the best way for a .NET winforms application to update itself without using ClickOnce?

Question

For technical reasons, I can\'t use ClickOnce to auto-update my .NET application and its assemblies. What is the best way to handle auto-updating in .NET?

Answer 1

As a starting point for rolling your own, it's probably worth looking at Alex Feinman's article on MSDN entitled "Creating Self-Updating Applications with the .NET Compact Framework".