.Net Framework Required Error

sanki779

Hi all, I have made a parser program.The exe which i have made works fine on my PC which has both Visual Studio 2005 and .Net Framework Installed. Now if i Copy paste the exe from my PC to some other PC which does not have Visual Studio 2005 and .Net Framework Installed and i try to run this exe it gives me error ".Net framework is not installed. Kindly install it to execute the application." Now problem is this that this application is needed to be run on hundred's of computers and its not a good thinking to install .Net framework on every computer the application needed to be run. So Can any1 suggest any work around for this? Some1 suggested me to use Installsheild for this but i dont know how to use this?????/ PLease HELP :((:confused::confused::confused: Sankalp Verma

JacquesDP

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sanki779

Hi What you have suggested is to install the specific .Net Components. Using this still i will have to instll the .Net Framework individually on every system which is a tedious task. :(Is there any way that i can make my application work on any m/c which doesnt have Visual studio or .net framework installed?

Sankalp Verma

JacquesDP

You can set up your bootstrapper to first check for an installation of the .net framework, if its not installed it installs it. Then it installs your application. So from the users side they only have one setup.exe that they click on and it installs the .net framework and everything that you set the bootstrapper to install. If your program is a very simple one (you don't have any registry entries that has to be written at installation), and your using VS2005 I suggest you use the ClickOnce Publisher, that too you can set that your program depends on the .net framework to run, then at installation it checks whether the .net framwork is currently installed or not, if not it intalls it for you.

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JacquesDP

As far as I know do you need the dotnet framework to be installed on the target machine that you wish to run your program from as your program was developed on the dotnet framework. The Visual Studio doesn't need to be installed on you target machine only the dotnet framework. I doubt if a workaround would be possible to not install the dotnet framework.

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sanki779

Thanks Fir that help:)

Sankalp Verma