What is the error message when .NET 2.0 is not installed?

[Matt]

I was wondering what the exact error message is when a user attempts to
run a .NET 2.0 application on a machine that does not have the
framework installed. I remember in 1.1 it was a nasty cryptic message
that was not at all helpful, has it improved any?

We are working on a simple tool that will run from a CD or whatever and
has a requirement that it is XCOPY, we cannot install it, is the
missing 2.0 error message human readable? Do we need to develop some
sort of native loader application to catch the missing CLR exception
and display something more user friendly?

Thanks!

 

[EmeraldShield]

I was wondering what the exact error message is when a user attempts to
run a .NET 2.0 application on a machine that does not have the
framework installed. I remember in 1.1 it was a nasty cryptic message
that was not at all helpful, has it improved any?

We are working on a simple tool that will run from a CD or whatever and
has a requirement that it is XCOPY, we cannot install it, is the
missing 2.0 error message human readable? Do we need to develop some
sort of native loader application to catch the missing CLR exception
and display something more user friendly?

Thanks!

I would defintely write a small app that runs first. It would look for the
dot net registry keys and if they don't exist tell the user.

I seem to remember testing this a while back and the error was one of those
generic "A DLL required for this application could not be found" type of
messages.

 

[Matt]

Thanks for the reply, it sounds like I will have to do a small little
native loader utility. Thanks!