.NET framework availability stats

[Yuri Martsynovskyy]

Can you point me to the statistics about how many computers have particular
version on .NET framework installed.
I need to decide what version of .NET we can use for the desktop application
so that we could minimize downloads of framework redists.

 

[Michael Nemtsev [MVP]]

Hello Yuri,

Statistic in which area? I'm not sure that u can find such statistic

The tendency is that the project starts with the latest verson of .NET available
at that moment.
But there are some exceptions in bank/finance areas, where guys are step
behind from the latest FW version.

It actually depends on type of your projects. If you are working in shareware
market, that .NET 2.0 is the most wide spread now.
But I wouldn't rely on that only in terms of size to download and consider
FW in terms of features and speed of development

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YM> Can you point me to the statistics about how many computers have
YM> particular
YM> version on .NET framework installed.
YM> I need to decide what version of .NET we can use for the desktop
YM> application
YM> so that we could minimize downloads of framework redists.
YM> --
YM> Regards
YM> Yuri,
YM> Deep Software

 

[Yuri Martsynovskyy]

Statistic in which area? I'm not sure that u can find such statistic

I need statistics about how many computers have .NET FW installed

For example, from analyzing website's logs I found that of all visitors who
has Vista/XP/2000 only 51% have .NET 2.0
and only 13% have .NET 3.0

FW 3.0 redist download size is 50Mb for x32 and 90Mb for x64 which is a lot
to make useres download together with our software

 

[Steven Cheng]

Hi Yuri,

It's hard to give a figure on the deployment number of each version of .net
framework. Generally speaking, most of the platform will have .NET
framework 1.x and 2.0 installed since these two are the fundamental one.
For .NET 3.0/ 3.5, both of them rely on .NET framework 2.0. In other words,
if some of the client need to use features in .net framework 3.0 or 3.5,
installing .net framework 2.0 is the prerequisite.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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