.NET redistributable related
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For any application developed in C#, it is necessary to have .NET redistributable installed on the target machine otherwise the application will not run. I've heard that the size of .NET redistributable is about 25 MB and of course it is necessary to include it with our setup program no matter how small our application is. Is it possible that the size of redistributable that we provide is less than 25 MB, just including only those dependencies that are utilized by our samall appication ????
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For any application developed in C#, it is necessary to have .NET redistributable installed on the target machine otherwise the application will not run. I've heard that the size of .NET redistributable is about 25 MB and of course it is necessary to include it with our setup program no matter how small our application is. Is it possible that the size of redistributable that we provide is less than 25 MB, just including only those dependencies that are utilized by our samall appication ????
No. Because the Common Language Runtime needs to be there...plus all the base classes in the framework. So you have to ship the entire thing with your app.
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No. Because the Common Language Runtime needs to be there...plus all the base classes in the framework. So you have to ship the entire thing with your app.
You will now find yourself in a wonderous, magical place, filled with talking gnomes, mythical squirrels, and, almost as an afterthought, your bookmarks -Shog9 teaching Mel Feik how to bookmark I don't know whether it's just the light but I swear the database server gives me dirty looks everytime I wander past. -Chris Maunder
This is a huge problem with .NET If you're a small company and generally don't distribute your apps on CD, .NET is severly limiting your potential market. I've managed to compile C++ 6.0 using Studio.NET and the final exe does not require the 22MB framework but I have been unsuccessful with VB.net I agree that EVENTUALLY, everyone will have the framework installed, but untill then, would you download a 22.1MB application or a 100Kb application? Rick Eastes. http://www.eastes.net