Newbie - .NET Distribution Question

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Hello All:

This may be a dumb question, Please forgive me, but I cannot seem to
find a straight answer for myself. What I would like to know is, With the
Standard Editions of the .NET development tools, Can I distribute programs
that "I" write in
the IDE's?. What I mean is provided the application I write dosn't include
any third party controls, code etc Can I write a simple application compile
the code and then distribute the executable file ? Any information in
regards to this would be much appreciated.

Thanks in Advance
Mitchell
 
If you can compile it then you can sell it or give it away.

After all, you can just download the Framework SDK and use notepad as your
editor and the commandline compiler and what pops out the end is yours to
pass around, right? If you really didn't want or weren't yet able to afford
VS you could do a complete Winforms project just using notepad ... it will
take a lot more typing but the compiler would spit it out and it would be
the same as if you'd used VS and let it churn out all of the boilerplate
code. VisualStudio is just a pretty (and very useful) face, but last time I
looked the Framework SDK and compilers were still free.

As to 3rd party controls, "3rd party" implies that they weren't included
with VisualStudio but that you bought them or otherwise got them from some
other vendor. For distribution details you should read the individual
agreements for each of those controls. But if you mean that you are using
some of the controls that you saw in the toolbox in your shiney new IDE,
controls that shipped with VS, then the rule of thumb is that the runtime
versions of those are freely distributable when used as part of your
compiled app.

robert smith
kirkland, wa
www.smithvoice.com
 
There is an answer to your question in the Visual Studio FAQs as to what is
distributable and what is not.
 
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