Deploying .NET
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Hi, Having traditionally written C++ windows applicatons for a number of years, I am looking forward to geting to know the .NET technologies. While starting to read about what is available the first thing that springs to mind is how are these applications deployed, what OS's support this. There is a lot of talk about cross-platform compatibilty but does that mean when you are deploying your application on non-.NET compliant systems e.g. I assume win95, win98,ME,non-Microsoft OS's then you install the necessary .NET components? Could anyone point me in the direction of any articles that addresses this area. Thanks Neil
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Hi, Having traditionally written C++ windows applicatons for a number of years, I am looking forward to geting to know the .NET technologies. While starting to read about what is available the first thing that springs to mind is how are these applications deployed, what OS's support this. There is a lot of talk about cross-platform compatibilty but does that mean when you are deploying your application on non-.NET compliant systems e.g. I assume win95, win98,ME,non-Microsoft OS's then you install the necessary .NET components? Could anyone point me in the direction of any articles that addresses this area. Thanks Neil
Best place is on MSDN in the Deploying .NET Framework Applications*. If you have high level questions about .NET then msdn.microsoft.com/net* is the place to start. About the cross-platform compatibility; the platform you want to deploy to will have to have a .NET framework written for it. The MONO project is doing this for Linux so that you can run .NET apps on Linux. I am unsure though about other versions of Windows or other OSs. Hope that helps :) *links open in current browser window regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Hi, Having traditionally written C++ windows applicatons for a number of years, I am looking forward to geting to know the .NET technologies. While starting to read about what is available the first thing that springs to mind is how are these applications deployed, what OS's support this. There is a lot of talk about cross-platform compatibilty but does that mean when you are deploying your application on non-.NET compliant systems e.g. I assume win95, win98,ME,non-Microsoft OS's then you install the necessary .NET components? Could anyone point me in the direction of any articles that addresses this area. Thanks Neil
The .NET Framework will be available for Windows 95 through XP. Some installation packages such as InstallShield Developer and Wise Installer allow you to package a "merge module" for the .NET Framework, thus ensuring that it is installed on the target machine if it is not already there. MSDN is a great resource and all of the technical content is available free at http://msdn.microsoft.com Cheers! Colin Bowern, Consultant Enterprise Platform Solutions Microsoft Services (Canada)