Moving to .NET

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I develop a desktop windows application using Visual C++. The program is only available by download and the download size is 6MB, so its quick and easy to download and install. In order to take advantage of some of the new .NET features, I'm thinking of now porting the program to .NET. One question I have is over whether users will find it equally easy to download and install my program if it's built for .NET. Obviously, I can point users to where to go to to downlaod the .NET runtime, but I guess I'm trying to figure out what percentage of users will already have the .NET runtime. If most users already have it, then most people who download my program still only need to download 6MB. If most users don't have it, it means that most users require another 20MB download to use my program
Does anyone have ideas/comments on this issue? i.e on how pervasive is .NET is at the moment, and what are the best approaches to minimise incovenience to end users

Thank
Robert
 
Windows XP and 2003 have it already.
Otherwise, see if you can check for the runtime and provide a link to allow
users to download it (from Microsoft's site).

- Joris

Robert F said:
Hello,

I develop a desktop windows application using Visual C++. The program is
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only available by download and the download size is 6MB, so its quick and
easy to download and install. In order to take advantage of some of the new
..NET features, I'm thinking of now porting the program to .NET. One question
I have is over whether users will find it equally easy to download and
install my program if it's built for .NET. Obviously, I can point users to
where to go to to downlaod the .NET runtime, but I guess I'm trying to
figure out what percentage of users will already have the .NET runtime. If
most users already have it, then most people who download my program still
only need to download 6MB. If most users don't have it, it means that most
users require another 20MB download to use my program.
Does anyone have ideas/comments on this issue? i.e on how pervasive is
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..NET is at the moment, and what are the best approaches to minimise
incovenience to end users?
 
One question I have is over whether users will find it equally easy to download and
install my program if it's built for .NET.
i.e on how pervasive is .NET is at the moment,
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Well, the more compelling reasons (e.g. really useful software
packages) there are that require the .NET framework, the more users
will go about and download it and be ready to use it from then on.

Right now, most will likely still not have it - but if you give 'em
reason enough to want to get your software, installing the .NET
runtime is usually not more of a inconvenience than having to install
a particular patch / service pack for your OS - users have become
accustomed to that by now.

So I'd say - go ahead and write excellent software - if users really
see a benefit, they'll cough up the time to download the .NET
framework and install it !

Marc

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Marc Scheuner May The Source Be With You!
Bern, Switzerland m.scheuner(at)inova.ch
 
Joris Dobbelsteen said:
Windows XP and 2003 have it already.
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Ok for 2003 but most XP machine i've seen didn't have it. It's maybe
included in a newer version of the XP CDs but you can surely not assume that
a XP user has the .NET framework.
 
Hi C# and Java gurus,

Have anyone of you attempted to port any Jakarta projects into C# or do you
know if there are any similar open source projects out there? I have gone
through some of the gotdotnet stuff and reckon the sample code there (albeit
are useful and good), are not as high quality as open source community like
the Jakarta or Apache projects.

I am starting to port Jakarta Commons langs and BeanUtils, and wondering if
anyone has done other ones like Jakarta Digester and Validators, etc.

I am most interested to hear from you guys and get in touch with you people
out there would share the same believe that we could possibly port some
stuff over to the C#/Dot Net world. Some nice people have already starting
to migrate some of their projects to the C#/Dot Net world.

The ones I can list right now on top of my head are:
1. Maverick
2. nVelocity (from Apache Velocity)
3. Log4N (from Jakarta Log4J)
4. NAnt (from Apache Ant)
5. NiText (from iText)


Cheers,
joe
 
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