Client Requirements?

[Guest]

I'm trying to find a site that will tell me exactly what the requirements
from a OS perpective is required to run a .net 2005 smart client windows
application from the clients machine. I know the developers machines need XP
SP2 to install the IDE, but with the clients running the application do they
only need the 2.0 framework and it doesn't matter if XP SP2 is installed or
not.

 

[Jeffrey Tan[MSFT]]

Hi MasterBlaster,

Thanks for your post.

Regarding client machine , I do not think there is any special requirement
for ClickOnce application. The only requirement is .Net Framework2.0.

Because .Net is the technology with platform independent as the target, the
..Net application should have no requirement regarding the underlying
platform, .Net Framework and CLR will take care of the platform difference
for the applications. So the .Net application underlying platform
requirements is the same as the platform requirements of .Net Framework,
once the OS supports .Net2.0, it can run ClickOnce application well.

But, there may be special requirement of your application. That is: your
application may need some special components, such as MDAC, Crystal Reports
etc.., then we can add these special components requirements in ClickOnce
publish wizard.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Jeffrey Tan
Microsoft Online Partner Support
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[Patrice]

Try :
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...cb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en

Though your best bet is likely to give this a try, the download page for the
2.0 redistributable package mention XP SP2 as a supported OS.

Let us know.

 

[Guest]

My concern then the statement below does not state XP SP1 or prior XP
versions, but do they just put the latest version out and state it's backward
compatabile?

Supported Operating Systems: Windows 2000 Service Pack 3; Windows 98;
Windows 98 Second Edition; Windows ME; Windows Server 2003; Windows XP
Service Pack 2

Thanks

 

[Patrice]

My understanding is that they mention what you need at least (that is it is
supported on Windows XP SP2 or later). If you have a former release handy
you could give this a try (I believe we had this issue during the beta
program i.e. we had to create a SP2 virtual machine to have a look at the
beta).

 

[Guest]

That is true from a developers percepctive to work with the IDE, but I'm
speaking from a client percepctive. Meaning they are launching a smart client
windows application from our web server. Can I get a way with XP SP1 and not
have SP2 installed on the clients machines to access a .net 2005 windows
application.

 

[Patrice]

This is the page for the .NET 2.0 runtime (not the SDK) so my thought would
be that this applies to all users.

Do you have a SP1 machine handy ? My personal preference would be to this
give a try anyway (if SP2 is needed it's likely the .NET 2.0 runtime will
complain when trying to install).

Sorry for the poor help.