How Do I Include .net Framework 2.0 In Setup Project For Windows Forms App?

[joey.powell]

How Do I Include .net Framework 2.0 In Setup Project For Windows Forms
App?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Joey,

I hope you aren't doing this now, since the release version of .NET
isn't out yet =)

Regardless, have you considered making a Click Once application? It is
hosted on a website and will assist with the install on the user's local
machine (making distribution easier for you, of course). It will also
install the framework if it is not already installed on the machine.

It looks like it will do exactly what you need it to do.

Hope this helps.

 

[joey.powell]

I will investigate the "click once" application...I have never heard of
it.

I am not distributing the app yet...I am only testing. And I am using
the latest build, downloaded a couple days ago off of MSDN (RTM/Go
Live). I am doing an RC for the app now, and I'll test with the
"official" VS2005 release and then repackage and distribute the app as
an "official" release then.

I suspect the "official" release of VS2005 will offer the ability to
include the framework in a setup project...or at least will offer some
sort of bootstrapper for it. Have you heard if any of this is true?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

I haven't looked into the installation improvements (other than Click
Once) for the next release of VS.NET. From what I can tell, the installer
project doesn't have an option to install the framework. Of course, this is
a cursory examination. It might be buried in there somewhere still, but I
can't see it just glancing over it.

 

[Guest]

-Where, specifically, can we learn more about making a Click Once Application?
-Does it require a Windows Server to host it?

Joey,

I hope you aren't doing this now, since the release version of .NET
isn't out yet =)

Regardless, have you considered making a Click Once application? It is
hosted on a website and will assist with the install on the user's local
machine (making distribution easier for you, of course). It will also
install the framework if it is not already installed on the machine.

It looks like it will do exactly what you need it to do.

Hope this helps.


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- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
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How Do I Include .net Framework 2.0 In Setup Project For Windows Forms
App?