Stand-alone App

[Jim Witt]

Is it possible to compile an assembly to be a stand-alone app
independant of installing the .NET framework, or would that make an
enormous .exe size?

Thanks!

 

[Miha Markic]

It is not possible.

 

[100]

Hi Jim,
No, it is not possible. But this question was posted in this newsgroup
before and as far as I remember there was an answer with link to some
project that claim to make this possible. But my question is where is the
benefit of doing this. Why not just go C/C++/VB/DELPHI or whatever you want
and write native windows applications? Why should anyone write a managed
application and then make it windows native?

B\rgds
100

 

[Laszlo Szijarto]

Why should anyone write a managed

application and then make it windows native?

Becuase C# is an awesome programming language and the IDE makes programming
very nice and easy, but one may not want the headaches associated with
having to deploy the .NET framework. There has GOT to be a way to take C#
and compile to native code. Heck, there are even ways to do that for Java.
It's just a matter of time before someone comes up with a good solution for
C# (.NET).

They're working on it here -- http://www.remotesoft.com/

 

[Brandon]

Becuase C# is an awesome programming language and the IDE makes
programming very nice and easy, but one may not want the headaches
associated with having to deploy the .NET framework. There has GOT
to be a way to take C# and compile to native code. Heck, there are
even ways to do that for Java. It's just a matter of time before
someone comes up with a good solution for C# (.NET).

They're working on it here -- http://www.remotesoft.com/

This looks cool. One of the things dulling my excitement over C# is having
to make sure any target system has a 30 meg runtime on it! But I am
curious, aren't there legal issues here regarding distributing portions of
the .NET framework with your app without using Microsoft's redistributable
installer?