How to install .NET framework 2.0 on XPe SP1?

[Juergen Marquardt]

Have a panel pc with XP embedded SP1 installed.

Device has 1GB flash drive with 696 MByte free space.
Device also has 128 MByte RAM.

Must install .NET framework 2.0 (not compact framework).

Microsoft sites tell that first must upgrade XPe to SP2.

Any way to install onto SP1?

Juergen

 

[KM]

Juergen,

There are certainly ways to install .Net 2.0 on your runtime. Although the easiest way for you would be going to SP2 or FP2007 and
build a new image.

Depending on how "fat" your current SP1 image and whether or not it's having the .Net 1.1 stack it may appear to be lots of work to
install the 2.0 component at run time.

First of all, if you happened to have Windows Installer and all its dependencies in your image you can start with the .Net installer
that you can download from MSDN.
Otherwise, you will have to explore the 2.0 stack on SP2/FP2007 (investigate it in TD SP2) and grab all the files/reg.entries, PnP
resources and install them manually at run time. You can certainly automate this but no tools are available for you to help with the
analysis.

Another possible approach is to use new Microsoft tool - Image Difference Engine (IDE). You will have to build new SP1 image with
the .Net 2.0 included, deploy it and then try to compare it with the original image you have now using the IDE.

In any case, it is going to be a tedious process vs building a new SP2 image.