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+type: rule
+title: Do you know what the user experience should be like?
+uri: what-the-user-experience-should-be-like
+authors:
+  - title: Adam Cogan
+    url: https://ssw.com.au/people/adam-cogan/
+created: 2014-03-14T02:39:00.000Z
+archivedreason: outdated
+guid: 24f2a833-2d72-40d7-aeb0-3acea67bfc7f
+---
+As per the rule [Do you know there should be a standard menu item "Check for Updates"?](RulesToBetterWindowsForms.aspx#CheckForUpdates) on Rules to Better Windows UI, you should have a standard menu item "Check for Updates" in the Help menu.
+
+<!--endintro--> 
+
+Here are a couple of examples of Check for Updates results:
+
+::: bad
+![Figure: Bad Example - Skype does a good job, with a green tick and simple message. The actual version number would have made it more complete.](checkforupdate_skype.png)
+:::
+
+::: bad
+![Figure: Bad Example - Snagit has horrible UI (red text when it is not an error and Hyperlinks without underlines), however the link to the latest features is not bad](checkforupdate_snagit.png)
+:::
+
+::: good
+![Figure: Good Example - SSW Code Auditor has a great UI (using the freely available component in .NET Toolkit)](codeauditorupdater.png)
+:::
+
+More Information:
+
+If you implement this code from the SSW Toolkit, you will get this UI.
+
+![Figure 1: Help | Check for Updates opens the Updater form.](diagnosticsupdater01.jpg)
+
+![Figure 2: Confirmation that they already have the latest version.](diagnosticsupdater02.jpg)
+
+![Figure 3: The simple prompt to upgrade when a new version is available.](diagnosticsupdater03.jpg)
+
+![Figure 4: Showing the upgrading progress.](diagnosticsupdater04.jpg)
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+![Figure 5: Restarting the application is required because the new version will not take affect until quit and launch the app again.](diagnosticsupdater05.jpg)