| Imports System.Net | |
| Public Class UpdateCheck | |
| Public Shared Function CheckForUpdates() As Boolean | |
| Try | |
| Dim webClient = New WebClient() | |
| Dim url = New Uri("https://dwsim.org/update/desktop.txt") | |
| Dim latestversion As String = "" | |
| latestversion = webClient.DownloadString(url) | |
| If latestversion = "" Then Return False | |
| latestversion = latestversion.TrimEnd(vbCrLf).TrimEnd(Environment.NewLine).TrimEnd() | |
| Dim currver = New Version(GlobalSettings.Settings.CurrentRunningVersion) | |
| Dim latver = New Version(latestversion) | |
| If latver > currver Then | |
| Return True | |
| Else | |
| Return False | |
| End If | |
| Catch ex As Exception | |
| Console.WriteLine("Error checking latest version: " & ex.ToString) | |
| Return False | |
| End Try | |
| End Function | |
| Public Shared Function GetWhatsNew() As String | |
| Try | |
| Dim webClient = New WebClient() | |
| Dim url = New Uri("https://dwsim.org/update/whatsnew_d.txt") | |
| Dim whatsnew As String = "" | |
| whatsnew = webClient.DownloadString(url) | |
| Return whatsnew | |
| Catch ex As Exception | |
| Return "" | |
| End Try | |
| End Function | |
| End Class | |