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Setup program for apps created with Visual C# Express

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app103:
While reading about this topic, I continue to get the impression that as time progresses, it will become less and less likely that a setup will need to install the Framework on a target machine.  Vista ships with the framework installed, and I imagine future versions of Windows will as well.
-kyrathaba (April 23, 2007, 10:48 AM)
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Not true. Doesn't Vista ship with 2.0 framework? What about when you start developing things that need 3.0 framework?

This may continue to be a need otherwise you will end up with the same horrors many VB developers had with missing runtime files.

hollowlife1987:
Ok, this script is taken from SDL dot net runtime installer it has the code to detect if .net 2.0 is installed or not.

kyrathaba:
Thanks, hollowlife.

Setup projects in Visual Studio .NET 2003 can be used to install the .NET Framework with your application, but only if you have installed the optional Visual Studio .NET Framework Bootstrapper Plug-in on your development computer.  This plug-in apparently does not work with the Express edition IDEs, however, so again one would need to investigate the ability to script such detection/installation of .NET Framework, using a tool like Inno or NSIS.

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