A lot of applications have a drop down menu item which allows the user to check for software updates. Is there a standard method for this? If so, what is done behind the scenes? Are they downloading a small file via FTP which details the re ...

I could do the implementation such that the client is being updated constantly from its Server, when it reads from the MySQL database and update on the client, by using the Timer. Upon each ticks, it would read from the server database and ...

using our office Local Area Network (192.168.1.xxx), I have no problem with the client updating the server database, when I set the MySqlConnection string "server=IP_Addresses_of_Server". However, when I switch to GPRS Connecti ...