Wish List Item - Slim CLR For Download

[SteveC]

For Java code, there is a "slim" download from Sun that contains just
enough code to host an applet plus the capability to download other
classes/jars as needed. There are seperate options from Sun (SDK
download containing jar.exe, etc) for those that need more.

I wish the same could be done for the .NET CLR; I would like to host
"C# applets" in my web pages, but a 20mb download plus a reboot is a
lot to ask.

Why can't Microsoft distribute a "slim" CLR download weighing in
around 5mb that just contains the base classes for XML, Remoting,
System.Data, and WinForms, a "medium" one with some more features, and
still distribute the full sized one?"

 

[Randy Charles Morin]

I mentionned something similar to a few guys over at Microsoft. There
jaws dropped. They seemed to have dropped the ball here. Nobody's
perfect. The biggest problem was that they released XP before they
released .NET. Had they got, .NET into XP, then we wouldn't have this
problem. Now we have to wait for Longhorn before .NET is properly
deployed.

Randy
http://www.kbcafe.com