include .net in application

[Dragos Barac]

We built an application in C# and just realized that
the .NET framework is not installed by default on WinXP
machines.

Short of asking our customers to download the entire .NET
framework, is there any other way to make a C#
application run on a standard XP client machine? Is it
possible to:
- statically link only the subset of .NET that our
application actually uses (3 or 4 dlls)?
- compile the app for x86 instead of IL code, so that
no .NET is necessary for the client machine?
Any other ideas, please?

I appreciate any ideas!

Thanks.

 

[Huihong Luo]

You can take a look of our new product, Salamander .NET Linker and
Mini-Deployment Tool,

http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/

It links .NET assemblies together, and to deploy your application without
installation of the whole Microsoft .NET Framework. The linker links MSIL
code on demand putting together only the required classes and methods, and
it is capable of linking into the Microsoft .NET framework class libraries,
then builds a minimum set of the Microsoft .NET runtime to ship with your
application. This usually results in installation size of a few mega bytes,
rather than tens of mega bytes, and the installation takes much less time
without rebooting machines.

Sample Windows Forms Apps are provided on the website,

Huihong

 

[Ray Hsieh (Ray Djajadinata)]

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Hi Huihong,

That sounds interesting. I wonder though, how did you handle classes
that are loaded dynamically?

Huihong Luo wrote:

| You can take a look of our new product, Salamander .NET Linker and
| Mini-Deployment Tool,
|
| http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/
|
| It links .NET assemblies together, and to deploy your application without
| installation of the whole Microsoft .NET Framework. The linker links MSIL
| code on demand putting together only the required classes and methods, and
| it is capable of linking into the Microsoft .NET framework class
libraries,
| then builds a minimum set of the Microsoft .NET runtime to ship with your
| application. This usually results in installation size of a few mega
bytes,
| rather than tens of mega bytes, and the installation takes much less time
| without rebooting machines.
|
| Sample Windows Forms Apps are provided on the website,
|
| Huihong

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Ray Hsieh (Ray Djajadinata) [SCJP, SCWCD]
ray underscore usenet at yahoo dot com
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