Hi Mathew,
Thanks for your followup. Yes, providing a config file for the iexplorer
does seems a bit senseless since it's hard for a serverside service to
control the clientside enviroment. However, this is actually limited by the
net's configuration mechanism which is application based rather than
assembly based. That means the application which host the assembly
determine which version of assembly(include the clr cor libs) to load.
As mentioned in the following article:
#Side-by-Side Execution of the .NET Framework
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en...enet.asp?frame
=true
unmanaged application such as COM host or IE hosted, we need to provide a
config file for the exe so as to determine the runtime for the assemlies
hosted in them.
In addition, sometimes we can also expose a complete .net exe application
through the http web url and provide a config file for it, thus, when the
clientside download the application , it'll also dowload the associated app
config file which can used to specify the target runtime version.
Thanks.
Regards,
Steven Cheng
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