Although I am no .Net guru, I believe that .Net applications have the
ability to download only needed DLLs across the web when an application is
hosted on a server. The application being run only downloads the DLLs
required for the functionality that the user is accessing. This saves
bandwidth and speeds the start of the application.
Seeing as how the .Net framework is HUGE, and not all of it is needed for
any one application, it would have been nice if a .Net application could
download only the portions of the .Net framework required by the application
at runtime. This would slowly load .Net on all PCs that want to run .Net
apps and would conserve bandwidth by only downloading the necessary .Net
framework components.
Perhaps, by including the newest .Net framework with the operating system,
Microsoft may be using it as a tool to enhance sales of OS upgrade packages.
Who knows? One thing's for sure....if .Net is the wave of the programming
future at Microsoft, .Net Framework distribution had better get the
attention it deserves.
I think distribution and keeping the .Net framework up-to-date on desktops
was an after-thought at Microsoft. Perhaps they just thought they could
push that burden off to the developers?
Thanks for your comments.
"Daniel O'Connell [C# MVP]" <onyxkirx@--NOSPAM--comcast.net> wrote in
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"clintonG" <cs*********@REMOVETHISTEXTmetromilwaukee.com> wrote in message
news:%2****************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl... Based on logical and business sense of course as I have a Universal
MSDN subscription -- and -- broadband and need not be irked
about anything that needs fixing in this context but for what I believe
to be Microsoft's ridiculous logistical blunders.
Yet your solution targets a populus that probably has the technical
ability to retrieve the framework without special help.
Shrink wrapping wiht magazines just doesn't sesem to be terribly
pervasive.
Mass mailing might work, if anyone bothered to install it. An additional
"strongly recommend" catagory or whatnot on Windows Update and Auto Update
may be more appropriate, if politically risky.