.NET framework

[Federico]

Dear all,

I've an old version of Visual Studio.NET (2002)standard
and I have read the guide for developers by Halvorson.
In the section on "how to distribute a Visual Basic . NET
Application", I have read that it is not possible to use
applications written by myself on other computers that
don't have the .NET Framework.

I have read in a new version of the guide (published in
2003) that Microsoft has solved the problem due to the
large size of the framework by building a smaller
framework of about 1.1 MB, which is downloadable from its
website.

Unfortunately, this smaller framework is only compatible
with the 2003 version. Do I need to buy a new version of
Visual studio.NET? Anything else that I can do?

Thank you very much for your help

 

[Robert Jacobson]

It sounds like the book is referring to the .Net Compact Framework. This is
a subset of the .Net Framework that is designed for running .Net
applications on Pocket PCs and other mobile devices:

..NET Compact Framework Overview
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/device/compact.aspx

I don't believe you can use the Compact Framework on a regular Windows PC,
though. If you want to distribute a .Net Windows application that runs on a
Windows PC, you'll you need to distribute the desktop (full) .Net Framework
with your app, or else have your users download it from Microsoft through
Windows Update if they don't already have it installed.

Redistributing the .NET Framework
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...ml/cpcondistributingcommonlanguageruntime.asp

Also, the CF is rather feature-limited in comparison to the desktop
Framework. For developing a desktop app, I think you'd typically want to
target the desktop framework anyway.

 

[Huihong]

It is possible to deliver .NET apps with a small portion
of the framework, but 1.1MB is impossible. Typical Windows
App will be about 4 MB after zip. You can simply unzip the
file to any computers, and the program will run.

find more info here,
http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/index.html

Huihong
Deploy .NET apps without full framework

 

[Robert Jacobson]

Note that this tool is new and is not supported by Microsoft.