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Deploying without .NET?

Hi there, I'm new to the forum and new to Visual Basic so please forgive my ignorance!

I just downloaded Visual Basic Express for free, and made my hello world program. I burned a CD with the results of the publish command, and installed the program on my other machine. My installation package was less than 1 Megabyte, but it forced me to download .NET 2.0 which took about half an hour to download and install!

Now I understand how .NET is great and all that, but I think it will seriously annoy my website users if they download a tiny little program from my website but then find they have to spend 30 minutes updating their system for the honour of messing around with my trivial program! Firefox is a complex browser and that installs in less than a minute!

So... is there any way I can deploy my program without forcing the user to get .NET, using Visual Basic? Or with Visual C++? Or would I have to code the GUI myself if I wanted to do that? I really want to be able to create a fun, slim program that will download and install in seconds on a Windows machine.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

cheers,
Peter
Jul 9 '06 #1
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sashi
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Hi there,

website user?? well.. they should be able to use your website freely as long as your webserver supports .NET framework.. any clients accessing .NET based application need not .NET installed in their local machine.. .NET framework is only needed to development environment.. :)

another solution will be.. since you allow your web user to download your application from your website why not provide a link for them do download the .NET framework from your website as well..

below is a link to download Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (x86)

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

well.. you have 2 options.. 1st will be providing the link.. 2nd will be allowing your website users to donwload the .NET framework runtime directly from your website.. good luck my fren.. :)
Jul 9 '06 #2

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