.NET redist size

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Wessam Bahnassi

Greetings people,

Perhaps a silly question, but I hope you forgive me and help me out with it
:)

We're to develop a desktop client app with C# that is to be distributed via
the internet mainly.
The point is almost all of our customers connect with a dial-up connection
(56kbps), so we're really concerned with the big download for the .NET
Framework (~22MB) which would prevent people from downloading our software
in the first place.
Customer systems are either WinXP SP1 or WinXP SP2. Almost all of them have
Office 2003 installed.
I'm thinking that people with WinXP SP2 won't need the download if I build
my app with .NET 1.1. But what about WinXP SP1? Does Office 2003 install
some version of .NET framework?

Can you help with any suggestions to solve the size issue, and what
systems/common software come with the .NET framework?

Thanks a lot,
Wessam Bahnassi
 
Wessam Bahnassi said:
Greetings people,

Perhaps a silly question, but I hope you forgive me and help me out with it
:)

We're to develop a desktop client app with C# that is to be distributed via
the internet mainly.
The point is almost all of our customers connect with a dial-up connection
(56kbps), so we're really concerned with the big download for the .NET
Framework (~22MB) which would prevent people from downloading our software
in the first place.
Customer systems are either WinXP SP1 or WinXP SP2. Almost all of them have
Office 2003 installed.
I'm thinking that people with WinXP SP2 won't need the download if I build
my app with .NET 1.1. But what about WinXP SP1? Does Office 2003 install
some version of .NET framework?
Click to expand...

Not sure about the latter, but XP SP2 doesn't include .NET either.
..NET 1.1 SP1 was shipped alongside XP SP2, but isn't part of it. On the
other hand, they may well have it due to Windows update.
Can you help with any suggestions to solve the size issue, and what
systems/common software come with the .NET framework?
Click to expand...

Various 3rd party products come with it, and some MS things which are
mostly server oriented (BizTalk needs .NET IIRC).
 
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