Need to install the entire .NET Framework for ClickOnce application?

[Akira]

Is there a way not to install the entire .net framework 2.0 on
client's machine when they install ClickOnce application?
The application size itself is only about 20MB. I know it
requires .net framework to run but I feel it is unnecessary to install
the entire thing. Most of our clients don't have machine with .net
framework installed, and some of them as slower connection to
internet, so we would like to reduce the size of the file they need to
download.
Can we just distribute only a part of .net framework being used by the
application? Is that possible?

 

[Rad [Visual C# MVP]]

Is there a way not to install the entire .net framework 2.0 on
client's machine when they install ClickOnce application?
The application size itself is only about 20MB. I know it
requires .net framework to run but I feel it is unnecessary to install
the entire thing. Most of our clients don't have machine with .net
framework installed, and some of them as slower connection to
internet, so we would like to reduce the size of the file they need to
download.
Can we just distribute only a part of .net framework being used by the
application? Is that possible?

Check out the Thinstall .... it does something like that

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Is there a way not to install the entire .net framework 2.0 on
client's machine when they install ClickOnce application?

No, except it's already installed .

Can we just distribute only a part of .net framework being used by the
application? Is that possible?

At least not using Microsoft-supported tools. Although there are tools
which can do that, I doubt that distributing parts of the .NET Framework
package are compliant to the license agreement.

 

[Akira]

No, except it's already installed .


At least not using Microsoft-supported tools. Although there are tools
which can do that, I doubt that distributing parts of the .NET Framework
package are compliant to the license agreement.

Thank you, Rad and Herfried.
I will look into 3rd party tool such as Thinstall.
Hopefully we can find something we can use.