Any cost for .NET framework

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Steve Rorabaugh

An obvious "newbie" question. Just attended a class in
developing applications with Visual Studio .NET in C#.
The development environment on my PC includes the
Microsoft .NET framework 1.1. It is my understanding that
a Windows application developed within this environment
would require a download of the .NET framework to each
client PC in order to operate. First of all, is this
correct? If so, is there any cost for the download? Next
I also understand that a Web application can be developed
within VS. NET and the .NET framework. Would there be any
additional download required on a client PC to fully
access that application? Or will a standard browser
suffice? Thanks for your help.
 
Steve Rorabaugh said:
An obvious "newbie" question. Just attended a class in
developing applications with Visual Studio .NET in C#.
The development environment on my PC includes the
Microsoft .NET framework 1.1. It is my understanding that
a Windows application developed within this environment
would require a download of the .NET framework to each
client PC in order to operate. First of all, is this
correct? If so, is there any cost for the download? Next
I also understand that a Web application can be developed
within VS. NET and the .NET framework. Would there be any
additional download required on a client PC to fully
access that application? Or will a standard browser
suffice? Thanks for your help.
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For apps running client-side (Windows Forms or Console apps, for example),
the client must download the Framework. This is free, and available to them
via Windows Update.

For apps running server-side (ASP.NET apps, for example), the client needs
only a browser (assuming you don't embed client-side .NET controls within
one or more of the web pages within the app).

Good luck,
Ryan LaNeve
MCSD.NET
 
Starting with Windows XP and Pocket PC 2003 the Framework is included.
- this may not be the last version.
Setup Programs should check this and offer an Update if needed.
As stated in the other message it is all free.

Mark Johnson, Berlin Germany
(e-mail address removed)
 
Just want to add Ryan comments :
The dotnet framework cannot be installed in Win95. It will
installed on Win98,2000,XP, etc please see this link
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?
FamilyID=262d25e3-f589-4842-8157-
034d1e7cf3a3&displaylang=en

This should be considered wheter you should build a
windows or web application.

Hope this helps :)

Jody Ananda
MCAD.NET,MCSD.NET
"All programs are poems, it just not all programmers are
poets."
 
This should be considered wheter you should build a
windows or web application.
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Actually, if it's a web application, it doesn't matter whether the clients
are running windows 95 or Solaris. If they have a web browser that supports
javascript and cookies, aspx apps will most likely work.

Now there is an issue with the fact that the HTML code generated by Visual
Studio only seems to look good on internet explorer. In fact, there are some
instances that a control that renders perfectly fine on both browsers when
coded the obvious way only looks good on IE when VS is used, because there
are some extra attributes that aren't necessary but confuse
Netscape/Mozilla.

Chris
 
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