Comments on my distribution strategy please!

[mickn66]

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[littleisharp]

What about the other pre-requisites for .Net?

For example, Windows 2000 Sp4, Year 2000 Updates for Windows 98, Internet Explorer 6 Sp1, Jet etc.

The Bootstrapper doesnt install these.

 

[mickn66]

What about the other pre-requisites for .Net?

For example, Windows 2000 Sp4, Year 2000 Updates for Windows 98, Internet Explorer 6 Sp1, Jet etc.

The Bootstrapper doesnt install these.

Thats a good question, do you have any suggestions about that? The way it is now, I have a readme file that tells the user to go to windowsupdate - but I dont particularly like that solution because for those people who are less computer-literate, its not necessarily so obvious how to get the .NET framework from windowsupdate - because its not a "critical" update.

 

[littleisharp]

Im using this bootstrapper app on codeproject:

dotNetBootstrapper

It goes a lot further than the microsoft bootstrapper app, and can be configured to check for all the other pre-requisites. You can either prompt the user to download them from a specific site, or you can include them with the install (which is fine if youre deploying by CD, not so if its a web deployment).

Are any of your users on Windows 98? theres a whole ream of stuff you need before a .Net app wll run.