Managed code is really unmanageable
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Great, I don't know where you guys live but here, we're still running 14-52 KB download rate as the maximum internet speed!! A .net runtime package would take a day to download!!
Muammar© wrote:
A .net runtime package would take a day to download!!
which is why I don't use it... you have a better download rate to some of my machines. More than half my machines will never have a download rate, hand-upgrading machines tends to discourage massive installs as well. No, I use the very small Visual C runtime. Per 2008, that was 1.7mb. I do have a collection of other DLLs, but then I make and distribute my own installers for about a decade now. :)
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Muammar© wrote:
A .net runtime package would take a day to download!!
which is why I don't use it... you have a better download rate to some of my machines. More than half my machines will never have a download rate, hand-upgrading machines tends to discourage massive installs as well. No, I use the very small Visual C runtime. Per 2008, that was 1.7mb. I do have a collection of other DLLs, but then I make and distribute my own installers for about a decade now. :)
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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I think the size of a runtime is negligible next to some of the data sets you've worked with. :rolleyes:
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Dan Neely wrote:
I think the size of a runtime is negligible next to some of the data sets you've worked with.
come on.... you don't HAVE to use the whole earth and every location we have.... I mean... the state of New Mexico, the entire state at 10m elevation grid and 1 meter imagery is only 350gb... we've still only got a smidgen over 500gb of terrains built. ;P ;P ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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And then explain why a screensaver needs a 280MB runtime...
Electron Shepherd wrote:
And then explain why a screensaver needs a 280MB runtime...
My lightning screen saver that still is running around somewhere on the internet (from 2002 I think), only requires a small Visual C one. :-D
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Marc Clifton wrote:
Tell them to install the .NET framework!
I always do, but do you think it's comfortable to ask someone to install a 40 MBs file to run a 100 KBs file?? Besides, they always have the question, why would we need this?? Just to run your applications?? We never had it and never needed it!! Face it Marc, just look me in the eye and tell me this doesn't sound familiar to you :laugh:
Muammar© wrote:
do you think it's comfortable to ask someone to install a 40 MBs file to run a 100 KBs file??
Yes. Library overhead aside, that happens to be the reason it's a 100 KB app and not a 40.1 MB application.
Muammar© wrote:
they always have the question, why would we need this?? Just to run your applications?? We never had it and never needed it!!
If they don't want to run any managed, .NET applications, great. Then you need to write your software for your target consumers. Your bad.
Muammar© wrote:
Face it Marc, just look me in the eye and tell me this doesn't sound familiar to you
I'm not Marc, but this never happens to me. All of the users I've run across in the past 2 or 3 years already have .NET installed. Of course my installation checks for that and will install it if need be, but since most of the installations are on non-internet computers, if they had to open an internet connection to get .NET, I'd hear about it.
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Muammar© wrote:
do you think it's comfortable to ask someone to install a 40 MBs file to run a 100 KBs file??
Yes. Library overhead aside, that happens to be the reason it's a 100 KB app and not a 40.1 MB application.
Muammar© wrote:
they always have the question, why would we need this?? Just to run your applications?? We never had it and never needed it!!
If they don't want to run any managed, .NET applications, great. Then you need to write your software for your target consumers. Your bad.
Muammar© wrote:
Face it Marc, just look me in the eye and tell me this doesn't sound familiar to you
I'm not Marc, but this never happens to me. All of the users I've run across in the past 2 or 3 years already have .NET installed. Of course my installation checks for that and will install it if need be, but since most of the installations are on non-internet computers, if they had to open an internet connection to get .NET, I'd hear about it.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
I'm not Marc, but this never happens to me. All of the users I've run across in the past 2 or 3 years already have .NET installed. Of course my installation checks for that and will install it if need be, but since most of the installations are on non-internet computers, if they had to open an internet connection to get .NET, I'd hear about it.
Doesn't seem to be a problem in your case; but if you're doing offline installs via CD/etc you can put the redistributable installer on instead of the downloader and have that install the framework.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
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Dan Neely wrote:
I think the size of a runtime is negligible next to some of the data sets you've worked with.
come on.... you don't HAVE to use the whole earth and every location we have.... I mean... the state of New Mexico, the entire state at 10m elevation grid and 1 meter imagery is only 350gb... we've still only got a smidgen over 500gb of terrains built. ;P ;P ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Muammar© wrote:
A .net runtime package would take a day to download!!
which is why I don't use it... you have a better download rate to some of my machines. More than half my machines will never have a download rate, hand-upgrading machines tends to discourage massive installs as well. No, I use the very small Visual C runtime. Per 2008, that was 1.7mb. I do have a collection of other DLLs, but then I make and distribute my own installers for about a decade now. :)
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Muammar© wrote:
do you think it's comfortable to ask someone to install a 40 MBs file to run a 100 KBs file??
Yes. Library overhead aside, that happens to be the reason it's a 100 KB app and not a 40.1 MB application.
Muammar© wrote:
they always have the question, why would we need this?? Just to run your applications?? We never had it and never needed it!!
If they don't want to run any managed, .NET applications, great. Then you need to write your software for your target consumers. Your bad.
Muammar© wrote:
Face it Marc, just look me in the eye and tell me this doesn't sound familiar to you
I'm not Marc, but this never happens to me. All of the users I've run across in the past 2 or 3 years already have .NET installed. Of course my installation checks for that and will install it if need be, but since most of the installations are on non-internet computers, if they had to open an internet connection to get .NET, I'd hear about it.
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr., P. E. Comport Computing Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
Walt Fair, Jr. wrote:
Yes. Library overhead aside, that happens to be the reason it's a 100 KB app and not a 40.1 MB application.
No, it doesn't consume the entire framework libraries and my point was some technique you may use to package those used libraries with the application.. I'm researching this for now. Thanks mate!
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Great, I like the way you do it and shall consider it. Any hints to start with?? You know, how do I get those used libraries in place for my application.. Thanks mate!
Muammar© wrote:
Great, I like the way you do it and shall consider it. Any hints to start with?? You know, how do I get those used libraries in place for my application.. Thanks mate!
search the lounge for installers... its a common request for installer software, comes up about every 6-9 months. If you go back far enough, I even asked it. :laugh:
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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Dan Neely wrote:
Your Honor, the prosecution rests.
:laugh: ;P ;P
_________________________ John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." Shhhhh.... I am not really here. I am a figment of your imagination.... I am still in my cave so this must be an illusion....
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I just developed some screen saver and spread it among my friends world wide, and although I specified the target framework to be .NetFramework 2.0, almost everyone complained that they can't run it! Even on Windows Vista!! On the bright side, only Windows7 plays it without the need to install the dotNet framework! Anyone have the same problem?? What do you do??
Muammar© wrote:
although I specified the target framework to be .NetFramework 2.0, almost everyone complained that they can't run it! Even on Windows Vista!!
This is weird. Vista comes with 3.0 installed and since 3.0 is IIRC just some extra DLLs added to 2.0 you shouldn't need to install anything else on their machines unless it was removed for some reason.
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Muammar© wrote:
although I specified the target framework to be .NetFramework 2.0, almost everyone complained that they can't run it! Even on Windows Vista!!
This is weird. Vista comes with 3.0 installed and since 3.0 is IIRC just some extra DLLs added to 2.0 you shouldn't need to install anything else on their machines unless it was removed for some reason.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18
Dan Neely wrote:
This is weird. Vista comes with 3.0 installed
Yes, I know!! Which makes me suspect if my application was really targeted for v2.0!! I thought, maybe because it's a 3.5 environment "being VS 2008" it might use some 3.5 parts although targeted for 2.0
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Dan Neely wrote:
This is weird. Vista comes with 3.0 installed
Yes, I know!! Which makes me suspect if my application was really targeted for v2.0!! I thought, maybe because it's a 3.5 environment "being VS 2008" it might use some 3.5 parts although targeted for 2.0
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I just developed some screen saver and spread it among my friends world wide, and although I specified the target framework to be .NetFramework 2.0, almost everyone complained that they can't run it! Even on Windows Vista!! On the bright side, only Windows7 plays it without the need to install the dotNet framework! Anyone have the same problem?? What do you do??
It is a problem, indeed. Thankfully they've mitigated the problem starting with with .NET 3.5 SP1: .NET Framework Client Profile[^] It's basically a subset of the framework that is smaller and easier to deploy.
Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;
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I just developed some screen saver and spread it among my friends world wide, and although I specified the target framework to be .NetFramework 2.0, almost everyone complained that they can't run it! Even on Windows Vista!! On the bright side, only Windows7 plays it without the need to install the dotNet framework! Anyone have the same problem?? What do you do??
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It is a problem, indeed. Thankfully they've mitigated the problem starting with with .NET 3.5 SP1: .NET Framework Client Profile[^] It's basically a subset of the framework that is smaller and easier to deploy.
Before .NET 4.0, object Universe = NULL;
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Sorry if this is a stupid question, but are all your dll's (yours and any 3rd party ones you're using) also set for the 2.0 framework; if you've only set the exe project it won't work.
3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18