S
Sin Jeong-hun
I had installed Windows XP. Now, I went to the Windows Update site. As
many of you already know, there is a category named "Software ,
optional". I could find .NET 1.1 (still there, after several years of
its release, and it is 2 generations old), and .NET 2.0. But I
couldn't find .NET 3.5 sp1 or .NET 3.5 or even .NET 3.0.
Then I thought, after installing .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 might
appear at the optional software category, but it didn't. Only .NET 2.0
service pack 1 did, at the high priority category.
Why is that? Microsoft doesn't recommend .NET 3.0 or higher for
Windows XP? To distribute WPF applications, we need .NET 3.0 or later,
and yet, we cannot make users install .NET 3.0 or later from the
Windows Update.
many of you already know, there is a category named "Software ,
optional". I could find .NET 1.1 (still there, after several years of
its release, and it is 2 generations old), and .NET 2.0. But I
couldn't find .NET 3.5 sp1 or .NET 3.5 or even .NET 3.0.
Then I thought, after installing .NET 2.0, .NET 3.0 or .NET 3.5 might
appear at the optional software category, but it didn't. Only .NET 2.0
service pack 1 did, at the high priority category.
Why is that? Microsoft doesn't recommend .NET 3.0 or higher for
Windows XP? To distribute WPF applications, we need .NET 3.0 or later,
and yet, we cannot make users install .NET 3.0 or later from the
Windows Update.