On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 14:12:42 +0530, Abhishek Srivastava
<ab******@nospam.net> wrote:
Hello Morten,
It's not in the WINDOWS directory
Let me rephrase my question.
Why is the "Microsoft.NET\Framework\v.1.0.3705" directory under windows?
(or whereever your WINDIR variable points to. c:\WinNT for example)
What is the rational behind keeping it there and not under "Program
Files"
Ah, my guess is that the framework is in the alley with dll files and other
system files, and therefore would be under windows instead of program files
which is far less secure in terms of accidentally deleting stuff. You will find a whole bunch of other files there too. Yes I know... but "why" are those files there.
Going by Common sense all the subdirectories under the Windows (%WINDIR%)
directory are in some way related to the OS functionality.
application specific files should not be present there. (Microsoft
themselves said this in TECH ED)
Yep, framework is tightly tied to the OS.
Yet the C# compiler seems to break this.
I just want to know if there is some special undocumented reason for
this? Or just vanilla old habit of dumping things in %WINDIR% (c:\windows
in my case).
I don't know. Though there might be the odd chance that Microsoft
considers the framework tools to be too complicated or not something
everyone should use and therefore hides it. Then again, csc.exe etc are
framework tools and all the windows tools seem to be in some directory
under %WINDIR%.
But you are right. I also think the developer tools should be found under
Program Files. It's a bloody annoyance to traverse to
C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.1.4233 (since I'm too lazy to add a
path to it ;)
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