Random Ideas and Headaches!
So brilliant ol’ me decided to go and try coding an application to control/monitor certain enabled programs, such as SysAlive 3. The main bonus was supposed to be being able to check a certain webpage or file for a list of current MD5 hashes of all the supported apps (or at least their version numbers) in order to determine if updates were available or not.
I found a problem with that idea I’ll need to sort out though. It seems the way c# works, I need to have the process LAUNCHED from said monitoring program – I currently can’t find a way that lets the monitoring app run separate from the initial application. So rather than having SA3 running first then you run LWHQ Suite Updater, you’d have to run LWHQ Suite Updater and it’d proceed to launch SA3. Frankly that sucks so I’m going to be mucking about with this for sometime.
If you’ve got a way to make it so I can monitor SA3′s StandardInput, StandardOutput, and StandardError StreamReader/Writer’s without having to start the app from the updater, please register and drop in a comment (it’ll get stuck in a moderation queue but I’ll definitely read/approve it if it’s even SLIGHTLY useful).
But for now, I must go sell shoes. Later folks!
Tags:confusing, headache, LWHQ Suite, random, suite, SysAlive, SysAlive 3, update, updater