Fees to distribute a C# EXE?

[Guy Harel]

I have come accross a posting saying that if you plan to develop an
application, with the C# language, and want to sell it as a product,
your customer will have to pay a fee for having the run-time
environment on their PC. Is that true? Cant the run-time environment
be bundle with the EXE? Should I consider using MFC C++ then?

[G. Waleed Kavalec]

"Guy Harel" <gu****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I have come accross a posting saying that if you plan to develop an
application, with the C# language, and want to sell it as a product,
your customer will have to pay a fee for having the run-time
environment on their PC. Is that true?

The "fee" is payable in megabytes.

[Bob Powell [MVP]]

The .NET framework is freely available from Microsoft. The SDK is free. The
development tools cost money but there are no runtime license fees to pay.

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"Guy Harel" <gu****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a5*************************@posting.google.co m...

I have come accross a posting saying that if you plan to develop an
application, with the C# language, and want to sell it as a product,
your customer will have to pay a fee for having the run-time
environment on their PC. Is that true? Cant the run-time environment
be bundle with the EXE? Should I consider using MFC C++ then?

[Michael A. Covington]

No...

The runtime (.NET Framework) is built into Windows 2003.

For Windows 98, ME, 2000, and XP, it is a free download from Microsoft and
you can also bundle it with your distributable code. This is easy to do
with the setup project generator, and it guarantees that the user gets the
exact same version that you developed with.

No fees.

"Guy Harel" <gu****@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:a5*************************@posting.google.co m...

I have come accross a posting saying that if you plan to develop an
application, with the C# language, and want to sell it as a product,
your customer will have to pay a fee for having the run-time
environment on their PC. Is that true? Cant the run-time environment
be bundle with the EXE? Should I consider using MFC C++ then?