I don't want to sound annoying to those who answered my question about C#
compileing. but, is there a way in which I can create a setup project in
visual studio without hte need for the user to download the .net framework.
if this is not possible, is it possible to suppply to neede part of the
framework for the setup project only.

Thank you for your help

Ryan,

I copied some links normally provided by Herfried on this quesiton in the
newsgroup microsoft.public.dotnet.languages.vb

Framework 1.0:

..NET Framework Deployment Guide
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ramedepguid.as
p>

Using Visual Studio .NET to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy.asp>

Framework 1.1:

Redistributing the .NET Framework 1.1
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/redistdeploy1_1.asp>

..NET Framework 1.1 Deployment Guide
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...ramedepguid1_1
..asp>

..NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable Prerequisites
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...edistreq1_1.as
p>

..NET Framework Redistributable Package 1.1 Technical Reference
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetfxref1_1.asp>

Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...tdeploy1_1.asp
>

I hope this helps?

Cor