.NET system loading

[colin]

Hi, I have a potential destination for my 'ready to be beta tested' .NET
c# program, but there is reluctance to install .NET
onto some pretty old machines due to the unknown impact
on other applications wich otherwise run ok
and need to be certian they remain that way,
as the .NET installation is quite large this is cuase for look first before
leaping.

Im unfamiliar with actually setting up my .NET program
to another machine other than the one I developed it on
wich is itself a few years old and seems to have no issues.

I was surprised the machines did not already have .net.

is the .net simply like a library in wich case it just sits there doing
nothing
unless a .net app is using it,
or does it affect the system in other ways such as/or heavily populate the
registry ?
can it be removed leaving no

is it possible to supply just the needed parts of .net with an app?
the program itself is only 13kb zipped, wich is a cool aspect of .net
..net was installed on this machine with another app wich used it I think.

but last look .NET was 18mb+, I also use XNA although this is for an
optional
part of the app.

thanks
Colin =^.^=

 

[Michael Rubinstein]

Colin,is it possible to supply just the needed parts of .net with an app?yes, quite possible, but you may need a third-party tool like Xenocode
Postbuild www.xenocode.com . I am not affiliated with the company behind it
(Code Systems Corporation), I just use their product and it does exactly
what you are looking for.

or does it affect the system in other ways such as/or heavily populate the
registry ?

Does not.

I make setups that determine the OS and .NET presence/absence and if not
present, install the executable with the .NET Framework 'embedded' - 20+ MB
executable. Otherwise, a much slimmer .NET executable is installed. I found
that even asking users if their PCs have .NET can be a problem. Users,
especially managers, don't like questions about things they don't know.

Michael