Distributing Small Windows Apps
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Are there any good tools for distributing a small c# app which would set up the .NET framework on a clientPC if needed? Also, so much of Visual Studio seems focused on web development. Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern, or would there be better tools out there? Thanks!
John Held
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Are there any good tools for distributing a small c# app which would set up the .NET framework on a clientPC if needed? Also, so much of Visual Studio seems focused on web development. Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern, or would there be better tools out there? Thanks!
John Held
In the past I have added a new project to my window app's, from the Other Project Types & Choose 'set up & deployment' type. This will create an .msi file & in here you can select pre-requisites like - checking for the .net framework. Hope this helps, Janet
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Are there any good tools for distributing a small c# app which would set up the .NET framework on a clientPC if needed? Also, so much of Visual Studio seems focused on web development. Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern, or would there be better tools out there? Thanks!
John Held
I have written an article on creating setup projects. At the bottom of the article in the forum I added a note on how to install the .net framework as part of the setup. http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/Win_App_Setup_Project.asp[^] Hope that helps. Ben
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Are there any good tools for distributing a small c# app which would set up the .NET framework on a clientPC if needed? Also, so much of Visual Studio seems focused on web development. Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern, or would there be better tools out there? Thanks!
John Held
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Are there any good tools for distributing a small c# app which would set up the .NET framework on a clientPC if needed? Also, so much of Visual Studio seems focused on web development. Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern, or would there be better tools out there? Thanks!
John Held
John Held wrote:
Are writing desktop apps with c# a thriving concern
Well, there seem to be quite a few jobs out there which ask for this. But I suspect that most of these are for corporate applications rather than the mass market. However, Microsoft have a number of such apps. floating around, e.g., XML Notepad, Paint .NET; and much of the UI parts of recent apps. are Win Forms based.
Kevin