Profiles

What Is SparkleDotNET? | The End User Experience | Using SparkleDotNET | Signing Your Updates | Info.plist Keys | Generating an Appcast | Anonymous User Profiles | Letting Your Users Customise SparkleDotNET | Localizing SparkleDotNET

Anonymous User Profiles

Optionally, SparkleDotNET can send an anonymous system profile along with each update request. If you collect this data, it can provide a great insight into your user base.

SparkleDotNET will send a profile at most once per week from any particular machine to help normalise the data.

What is Sent

SparkleDotNET sends the following information:

• Application Name
• Application Version
• The Windows version
• .NET CLR Version
• Whether the user is running a 64-bit version of Windows
• The number of logical CPUs (i.e., cores) the machine has
• The amount of RAM the machine has

How it's Sent

The profile appended to the appcast URL as a GET request. If your appcast URL already contains a GET request, the profile's values are appended on to the existing request. The keys are:

GET Key	Description	Example Data
appName	Application Name	SparkleDotNET Test Application
appVersion	Application Version	1.3.4
osVersion	OS Version	6.1.7600.0
dotNetVersion	.NET CLR Version	4.0.30128.1
cpu64bit	Whether the OS is 64-Bit	false
ncpu	The number of CPU cores	2
ramMB	The amount of RAM, in MB	1024