.NET 3.5 Runtime

[Peter Morris]

Is it true that to get the .NET 3.5 runtime onto a fresh XP installation
requires a 200MB download?

 

[Kerem Gümrükcü]

Hi Peter,

yes, the full redistributable 3.5 which includes the other runtimes that
the 3.5 depends on and some other stuff. And it is 197 MB in size.


Regards

Kerem


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[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Is it true that to get the .NET 3.5 runtime onto a fresh XP installation
requires a 200MB download?

It's not entirely clear. If you download the whole thing, it is indeed
that big. However, if you download the 2.5MB bootstrapper, it will only
download the bits it needs. For instance, I *guess* that it won't
bother downloading the 64 bit CLR if you're running on a 32 bit
machine.

When I installed it on an XP machine with .NET 2 on, it was only about
60MB after the initial bootstrap.

 

[Peter Morris]

Hi John

Thanks, that is much more reassuring. There's no way I'd be developing .NET
3.5 apps if my users had to download 200MB first!


Pete

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Thanks, that is much more reassuring. There's no way I'd be developing .NET
3.5 apps if my users had to download 200MB first!

On the other hand, asking your users to run a bootstrap which will
first download 2.5MB and then download some more separately isn't too
appealing either.

Hopefully in the next few weeks or so we may get more clarity on this -
separate bundles for an offline installation for x86, x64, with or
without .NET 2.0 already installed etc. I'm somewhat in the dark too!

 

[Willy Denoyette [MVP]]

On the other hand, asking your users to run a bootstrap which will
first download 2.5MB and then download some more separately isn't too
appealing either.

Hopefully in the next few weeks or so we may get more clarity on this -
separate bundles for an offline installation for x86, x64, with or
without .NET 2.0 already installed etc. I'm somewhat in the dark too!

Required for 3.5 , are the 2.0 SP1 (3.5 can't live without this) and 3.0 SP1
frameworks, both are available as stand-alone downloads, but this doesn't
reduce the total download volume .

Willy.