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Guest
I'm about to clean install Windows XP Pro SP2. Should I install .Net
Framework 2.0, 1.1 or both? Thanks.
Framework 2.0, 1.1 or both? Thanks.
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Shenan Stanley
Ale said:I'm about to clean install Windows XP Pro SP2. Should I install .Net
Framework 2.0, 1.1 or both? Thanks.
I do both still. For compatibility.
1.1 and all patches then 2.0.. so on.
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Ken Blake, MVP
Ale said:I'm about to clean install Windows XP Pro SP2. Should I install .Net
Framework 2.0, 1.1 or both? Thanks.
First, note that they are separate. The .NET Framework 2.0 doesn't replace
1.1, so you probably want both.
The .net framework is a runtime file needed to run programs written with
..net. It's roughly analogous to the old vbrunXXX.dll files needed to run
programs written in Visual Basic. Just as with Visual Basic, the various
versions are separate; for a vb 5 prgram, you needed the vbrun 5 file and
not the vbrun 6 file, and with .NET, to run a .NET 1,1 program, you need the
..net 1.1 file, not the 2.0.
Because .net is relatively new, there aren't yet a lot of programs that use
it. Even if you don't run any of these rograms
now, it's likely that you will soon, so my recommendation is that you might
as well get and keep both of these, so they will be there when you need
them.
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paulmd
Ale said:I'm about to clean install Windows XP Pro SP2. Should I install .Net
Framework 2.0, 1.1 or both? Thanks.
Do you have any software that relies on the .Net framework? If no, then
neither.
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Guest
Thanks, I always thought that 2.0 was an update to 1.1 so I never understood
why both patches are offered separately.
why both patches are offered separately.
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Ken Blake, MVP
Ale said:Thanks, I always thought that 2.0 was an update to 1.1 so I never
understood why both patches are offered separately.
You're welcome. Glad to help.