Deploying applications without .NET? 1

[johnaregan]

Hi
Do you need to have the .NET framework installed on the PC that you are deploying to?
I know that apps are compiled to byte code, but it seems silly if you also need to install .NET on all machines that you may be deploying to; if you compiled a program in C (not through .NET) then you dont need anything but the exe file.

Thanks in advance

 

[theoxyde]

Sorry, if you have a .NET app, the system running must have the .NET framework installed. It goes with the territory.

 

[codedinger]

The previous poster may be correct ... but if I am not mistaken, the designers of .NET take care of this problem by providing compiler directives that cause needed portions of .NET to be embedded into the generated executable. This allows programs developed for .NET to be executed on machines that do not have .NET installed.

Think of it as how MS Word allows you to embed "unusual" fonts into a document so that the document will appear correctly when opened on a machine that does not have that particular font installed.

I am relatively new to the whole .NET and C# environment (less than 1 month) but have been reading everything that I can get my hands on (one of the reasons that I'm in this forum to begin with) and think that I am telling you the truth. If I am not ... I'm sure that there are plenty of people out there who will set me straight.

Good Luck!

 

[chiph]

There's a new tool available at:

http://www.remotesoft.com/linker/

that allows you to link major portions of the .NET framework into your executable.

I haven't used it myself, but Joel has (

http://www.joelonsoftware.com),

and he seems to like it.

Chip H.


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[theoxyde]

The previous poster may be correct ... but if I am not mistaken, the designers of .NET take care of this problem by providing compiler directives that cause needed portions of .NET to be embedded into the generated executable. This allows programs developed for .NET to be executed on machines that do not have .NET installed.

Nope, unless you have the linker mentioned above (new to me), .NET executables will not run without the .NET framework installed.

 

[chiph]

Sorry, no "hidden" compiler directives to embed the framework in your assembly. Until the linker became available, the only answer would be to distribute the framework.

Chip H.


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