* Bob <Bob> scripsit:
I know 'C', Java and Perl. I was looking for a newer generation
language to learn and apply so I took a course in VB.NET. The course
went well and I continued learning the material. I wrote a utility
program in Visual Basic.NET at home for work. I went to execute the
program at work on someone else's computer and it said I was missing a
DLL. I've seen those type of messages before so I thought, no big
deal, until I researched the matter on the Internet.
According to what I read, each computer running VB.NET (or any .NET
language) must have the entire (and huge) .NET environment on each
computer.
That's true, and that's an advantage, because /all/ .NET applications
will use this framework.
Please tell me that I'm misunderstood. There's no way I
can install .NET on hundreds of computers at work.
There are ways to silently install the .NET Framework over a network, or
to download it using Windows Update. And there is no way around that
(sure, there are tools available that pretend to be able to do that, but
most of them are very expensive and from a technical point of view,
don't make much sense).
The .NET Framework is not only a huge class library, it's includes the
CLR which is the execution engine for .NET applications.
Did I misunderstand what I've read? If not, how do you deploy your
projects?
You can include the .NET Framework's setup in your project's setup
package:
My FAQ:
Using Visual Studio .NET 2003 to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy1_1.asp>
Plug-In:
<URL:http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=z2an4EnoDHA.2012%40cpmsftngxa06.phx.gb l>
Bootstrapper:
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/downloads/tools/bootstrapper/>
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Bootstrapper Plug-In
<URL:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=627921a0-d9e7-43d6-a293-72f9c370bd19>
<URL:http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/vsboot/> (old URL)
Download
<URL:http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/workspaces/newsitem.aspx?id=2f8f0a23-f529-4158-8e0a-d187d16f41f1&newsId=1981>
Framework 1.1:
Redistributing the .NET Framework 1.1
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/redistdeploy1_1.asp>
..NET Framework 1.1 Deployment Guide
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetframedepguid1_1.asp>
..NET Framework 1.1 Redistributable Prerequisites
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/NETFx1Redistreq1_1.asp>
..NET Framework Redistributable Package 1.1 Technical Reference
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetfxref1_1.asp>
Framework 1.0:
..NET Framework Deployment Guide
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/dotnetframedepguid.asp>
Using Visual Studio .NET to Redistribute the .NET Framework
<URL:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy.asp>
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M S Herfried K. Wagner
M V P <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/>
V B <URL:http://dotnet.mvps.org/dotnet/faqs/>
