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## Scenarios
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#### Production
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I'm a developer with a WPF application. I have *zero* way to distribute my application at the moment. I go to NuGet and install the Squirrel client library.
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Now, I want to publish a release. To do so, I pop into the PowerShell Console and type `New-Release`. What does this do? It:
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* Creates a NuGet package of my app (i.e. via shelling out to NuGet.exe or w/e)
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* It puts the package in a special "Releases" directory of my solution (along with a delta package for updates)
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* It also creates a Setup.exe that I can distribute to people
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* Can also transform `changelog.md` to `changelog.html` using the bundled Markdown library that ships with Squirrel
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I've created a new release. Now, I want to share it with the world! I upload the contents of my Releases directory verbatim to the web via S3 / FTP / whatever.
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In my app, I call `bool UpdateManager.CheckForUpdates("http://mycoolsite.com/releases/")` - similar to ClickOnce API but not awful. The library helps me check for updates, get the ChangeLog HTML to render, and if I'm really lazy, I can just call `UpdateManager.ShowUpdateNotification()` and get a stock WPF dialog walking the user through the upgrade. For production applications, I get the information I need to create my own update experience (yet I don't have to do any of the actual heavy lifting).
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When I call `UpdateManager.Upgrade()`, the application does the update in the background, without disturbing the user at all - the next time the app restarts, it's the new version.
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#### Users
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I click on a link, and within seconds my application starts. No install experience, no dialogs, no UAC.
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