Providing an application data update from a website

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Published on 2010-05-25T17:16:05Z Indexed on 2010/05/28 2:41 UTC
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I need to provide an update to application data as a download from a website. The update would actually just be the replacing of some data files with some updated ones.

The update, which I assume would be some sort of setup package type program, would need to be able to do the following:

access the file system and registry to determine where files should be copied to
supply the files to be copied
provide strong security so the data files cannot be downloaded or used by the wrong people

What would be best way to achieve all of the above?

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