packaging/channels

[giscus[bot]]

packaging/channels

Channels is a fundemental part of how Velopack understands and builds releases. Every release must belong to a channel. If you do not specify a channel when building a release (via the --channel) argument, the default channel will be the name of the target Operating System (eg. win, osx, or linux).

https://docs.velopack.io/packaging/channels

[shunkica]

The overload doesn't seem to exist new UpdateManager("https://the.place/you-store/updates", "beta").
The second parameter must be of type UpdateOptions

[shunkica]

It is unclear how we can fetch the current channel, the channel which the current app was built for.

[caesay]

Thanks for pointing out the mistake in the docs. It has been updated now, and yes you'll need to provide an UpdateOptions with the channel you'd like to switch to. (but you should not provide a channel if you intend to stay on the current channel). To find the current channel you can use VelopackLocator.GetDefault().Channel