Apps for Non-framework users

Hi.

I'm been thinking of making a couple of small applikations using C# and dotnet mostly cause i want to and the language seems interesting But i have a question i'd like to have awnsered.

The machines the apps ar going to be used on don't have the space for the framework but i can squeeze in one or two simple apps.

So is there a way to make an application so that the needed dll files and whatNot are all gathered together and ready to be installed on the end-user. Keep in mind that i don't have a CD rom for some of my machines. Don't want to run around with 50 floppy disks. So please any advise would be great

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Apps for Non-framework users

Andy Knight
I was having a similar problem and I don't know if this will help, but here is a link to my thread on how I came to a solution:

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=281223&SiteID=1
chipscap

I'm sorry it did not help. cause i do not want to install the complete Framework. What i want to do is make and install projekt containing only the needed parts of the framwork as well as the registry for those parts. As i said in my orignal post, i don't have alot of space to play with on the machines, nor do i have a cdrom. so i need to distribute through floppy disks.
hoosierboy
Hmm, I'm not sure that it's possible. I don't agree with the fact that we need to install the entire framework, but I'm not sure there are other options. If there are, I would really like to see them.
Pamish
i was trying to do too that..

i look in the .net framework fodler and selected the dlls i need like
mscorlib.dll System.Dta System.Design System.Windows.Forms and some other when i click the propretiesof these one the size of them was 31Mb LooL

I think only the Microsoft can do a .NET framework only for c# with minimum requirements..
anyway in the net windows version .NET Framewrok will be implement in the WinFx, and the WinFX will be a part of windows.. so in the next version of windows we wont worry anymore if the user has or has not the .Net framework.

Anyway its a good ideea for making a .Net frameWork just for c# coz is smaller and even if teh next windows will have the >\.net installed already there will still be users that will use win98 win2000 or xp...
Gregor Bussmann

so would i. have heard about someone just using the exakt dll file and some registry parts to get this to work but have not gotten it to work myself
Roundtwoit

Well, that is kind of the point of the framework and there are real advantages to it. If you don't like it, your only option is C++. Anything you get working today may not always work, and will either way be a definite hack
Satpal

Are you sure

cause i only need the "mscorlib.dll" from the framwork. And that file is only around 1.8 mb. Why do i have to install something that is 25 MB large Cause right now i only need this application installed om the machine !..
yassine b

No, you need to install the framework, it needs to set itself up on the target machine.
Dhirendra

I tried what you did and gathered the files i needed and the total became 5.8 Mb. quite a large number considering what the app does. But still considerably less then the entire framwork.

I really do like the development enviorment but the afterwork getting the programs to run abstractly with no strings attached to something preinstalled is a ***!

Might have to give up C# and go over to C++ even though i kinda like C# just a tad more...
Apps for Non-framework users

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