How many people have NET Framework 2.0 (or later) installed?
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Hi there, I plan to create a menu interface program for CD/DVD that uses classes from .NET Framework 2.0. There are some powerful classes in .NET that I want to use instead of creating them by myself to reduce the developing time. This menu program should be started automatically when the user inserts the CD/DVD in the drive. This is done by using the AutoRun technology in Windows. The problem is that if .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed in the computer this program can not be started. Then the user must first install .NET Framework 2.0 before the program can be run. Well, this is a common problem to all .NET programs and normally maybe this is not a big problem, but this program is supposed to show a menu interface immediately, and, I guess most users expect that, always... I know that Windows Vista always have .NET Framework 2.0 installed and I guess most Windows XP users today also have it. But I have never found any statistics about this. Does anybody know an Internet site that have statistics about how many people that uses .NET Framework 2.0, and the other versions of .NET Framework? Does Microsoft have some statistics? /Mika
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Hi there, I plan to create a menu interface program for CD/DVD that uses classes from .NET Framework 2.0. There are some powerful classes in .NET that I want to use instead of creating them by myself to reduce the developing time. This menu program should be started automatically when the user inserts the CD/DVD in the drive. This is done by using the AutoRun technology in Windows. The problem is that if .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed in the computer this program can not be started. Then the user must first install .NET Framework 2.0 before the program can be run. Well, this is a common problem to all .NET programs and normally maybe this is not a big problem, but this program is supposed to show a menu interface immediately, and, I guess most users expect that, always... I know that Windows Vista always have .NET Framework 2.0 installed and I guess most Windows XP users today also have it. But I have never found any statistics about this. Does anybody know an Internet site that have statistics about how many people that uses .NET Framework 2.0, and the other versions of .NET Framework? Does Microsoft have some statistics? /Mika
I would still say that you'd be crazy to assume everyone has .NET. Just write a bootstrapper that installs it from your CD.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
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Hi there, I plan to create a menu interface program for CD/DVD that uses classes from .NET Framework 2.0. There are some powerful classes in .NET that I want to use instead of creating them by myself to reduce the developing time. This menu program should be started automatically when the user inserts the CD/DVD in the drive. This is done by using the AutoRun technology in Windows. The problem is that if .NET Framework 2.0 is not installed in the computer this program can not be started. Then the user must first install .NET Framework 2.0 before the program can be run. Well, this is a common problem to all .NET programs and normally maybe this is not a big problem, but this program is supposed to show a menu interface immediately, and, I guess most users expect that, always... I know that Windows Vista always have .NET Framework 2.0 installed and I guess most Windows XP users today also have it. But I have never found any statistics about this. Does anybody know an Internet site that have statistics about how many people that uses .NET Framework 2.0, and the other versions of .NET Framework? Does Microsoft have some statistics? /Mika
The only thing that can really be assumed: All Windows Vista and above OS will have at least .NET 3.0. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not pushed .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0 to older systems through either Windows Updates or Service Packs.
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
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I would still say that you'd be crazy to assume everyone has .NET. Just write a bootstrapper that installs it from your CD.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Yes. I will of course check if NET Framework is installed, as the first thing I do, and start an installation if not. But I am just worried it will take a very long time. NET Framework is big and people expects a menu appear immediately. But I have to do some tests and see how long time it will take. And see how the user experience is if they need to wait long time before the menu appears.
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The only thing that can really be assumed: All Windows Vista and above OS will have at least .NET 3.0. Unfortunately, Microsoft has not pushed .NET 2.0 or .NET 3.0 to older systems through either Windows Updates or Service Packs.
Regards, Thomas Stockwell Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning. Visit my Blog
It would be interesting to know how many percent of for example the Windows XP users really have NET 2.0 installed, but there are maybe no official statistics here to read. But I guess the number of people having NET 2.0 or above is increasing very fast, because more and more program uses it and installs it. And in Vista it is always included (as part of 3.0).