.NET 3.5 redistributable package
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What is the .NET 3.5 redistributable package.. Does it contain the whole library needed to run any app?? I am planning to build an application in .NET which would require the framework obviously and when I ship this to client then I would have to ship the .NET framework too for it to run.. My question is that is the .NET 3.5 framework redistributable package which is freely downloadable on Microsoft site enough for shipping with my client application?? Since the size of the package is only 2.73MB, will the whole framework be installed with this redistributable package and would this be enough for my app to run?? One possibility may be that the client may not have an internet connection.. So would shipping this redistributable package be enough or does the client have to download the framework from internet after installing this 2.73MB package?? Please reply.. Thanks..
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What is the .NET 3.5 redistributable package.. Does it contain the whole library needed to run any app?? I am planning to build an application in .NET which would require the framework obviously and when I ship this to client then I would have to ship the .NET framework too for it to run.. My question is that is the .NET 3.5 framework redistributable package which is freely downloadable on Microsoft site enough for shipping with my client application?? Since the size of the package is only 2.73MB, will the whole framework be installed with this redistributable package and would this be enough for my app to run?? One possibility may be that the client may not have an internet connection.. So would shipping this redistributable package be enough or does the client have to download the framework from internet after installing this 2.73MB package?? Please reply.. Thanks..
Hey, Not sure, because I haven't deployed 3.5 stuff yet, but I think there's one with Windows SDK 6 (the one installed automatically with VS 2008). Should be somethere here if you have VS 2008 installed: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v6.0A\Bootstrapper\Packages\DotNetFX35
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What is the .NET 3.5 redistributable package.. Does it contain the whole library needed to run any app?? I am planning to build an application in .NET which would require the framework obviously and when I ship this to client then I would have to ship the .NET framework too for it to run.. My question is that is the .NET 3.5 framework redistributable package which is freely downloadable on Microsoft site enough for shipping with my client application?? Since the size of the package is only 2.73MB, will the whole framework be installed with this redistributable package and would this be enough for my app to run?? One possibility may be that the client may not have an internet connection.. So would shipping this redistributable package be enough or does the client have to download the framework from internet after installing this 2.73MB package?? Please reply.. Thanks..
I've got a feeling that that 2.73MB installer is simply a bootstrapper which downloads the rest from the internet. At the moment the current framework weighs in at about 300MB, with SP1 (beta at the moment) Microsoft will be introducing a "cut-down" version (i.e. it excludes all the server stuff) which will bring the redistributable size back down to a few tens of megabytes.
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