I’m about to start an AIR project for a client and I knew that the first thing I’d want to enable was auto updating. The thought of sending out a new .air file ever other day just wasn’t an option. And of course even after the project is complete there will be updates to make. The client will be happy to see how easy it is to update their installed application through the development process.

Mihai Corlan wrote a very concise and helpful tutorial on adding this functionality to a new or existing AIR app. I went from start to finish on his tutorial in about 15 minutes - and it was 15 minutes well spent.

If you want to know more about what’s new in the AIR 1.1 update then read Ryan Stewarts post.

I was thinking maybe a better title for this post would have been: Using the AIR 1.1 Updater Framework, so easy even a Silverlight developer could do it. What do you think?