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Building and installing setup packages that require .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows Vista

Published Date: August 17, 2006
Category: Windows Installer | .NET | Packages | Personal Blog
Author: Aaron Stebner
Site: Aaron Stebner's WebLog

Summary
Aaron Stebner blogs about building application packages that utilize .NET Framework 1.1 on Windows Vista. He discusses about how to use Visual Studio to create such install packages and elaborates how .NET Framework 1.1 can be included for SupportedRuntimes even when .NET Framework 2.0 is already a part of Windows Vista.

[Author Extract]
...your setup package will check for the existence of the .NET Framework 1.1 and block installation if it is not present. This will likely cause confusion when users try to install this package on Windows Vista because Windows Vista already includes the .NET Framework 2.0 as part of the OS, and many users do not understand why they need to install an older version of the .NET Framework when a newer version is already present.

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Additional Info
You can find Aaron's Blog browsing [FeedRoll >> Windows Installer Blogs >> Aaron Stebner's WebLog] at this site.

About the Author
Aaron Stebner currently is a Program Manager on the Windows Media Center team at Microsoft and have been working at the company since August 1999. He worked as a tester on the Windows Embedded team and for 4.5 years on the setup team for Visual Studio and the .NET Framework. He helped to ship Visual Studio .NET 2002 and 2003 and the .NET Framework 1.0 and 1.1. [Source: Aaron's WebLog]

Last Updated ( Thursday, 02 November 2006 )

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