Best practices question

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Al_C

Have just rejoined the fray after a 5 year adventure in another career
direction.
VB.Net is certainly a lot better than VB5/VB6 from what I can see. My
productivity
has been excellent.
My question is that I'm working on an application that will be run on
machines that have win98SE
fairly often. The way I understand it, my VB.net app will run fine on a
98SE box as long as
the .net Framework is installed on the 98 box.
Is this the current practice in software?
Has there been any dowsides?
I can see the 98SE owners being resistant to change for obvious reasons?
Thanks for your thoughts
 
What reasons are those? :)

Really, why would they be averse to installing the 2.0 framework on their SE
boxes? It is just another runtime. Nothing more really than the JRE,
existing VB6 runtime or MSVCRT for that matter. Just bigger.
 
Many of my customers are very computer ignorant and I have concerns how they
will
feel about adding something new into a working system that they probably
have not
upgraded or changed in 5 years.... I actually have to assume they may not
even have a network
connection or an email client running.
I can just imagine if it broke something. ;)
 
Al_C said:
Have just rejoined the fray after a 5 year adventure in another career
direction.
VB.Net is certainly a lot better than VB5/VB6 from what I can see. My
productivity
has been excellent.
My question is that I'm working on an application that will be run on
machines that have win98SE
fairly often. The way I understand it, my VB.net app will run fine on a
98SE box as long as
the .net Framework is installed on the 98 box.
Is this the current practice in software?
Has there been any dowsides?
Click to expand...

The downsides are that some of the classes of the .NET Framework are not
supported by Windows 98. Thus you'll have to theck in the documentation if
the classes/methods you are using in the project are supported on Windows
98.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not doing anything particularly clever,
all the interesting dlls are mine, the rest is just a basic classic form.
But I'll make sure I deliver it to a 98SE this week. So much for my holiday
;(
 
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