Microsoft .NET Framework 4

Thanks for the news. Is this the one that means that previous .NET builds aren't needed all together? As in no need to have .net 2, .net 3 and .net 3.5 installed at the same time.
 
MarcLister said:
Thanks for the news. Is this the one that means that previous .NET builds aren't needed all together? As in no need to have .net 2, .net 3 and .net 3.5 installed at the same time.
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There are no previous .net requirements in the listed system requirements, and I've just installed it on a fresh Windows 7 Pro VM without it mithering for anything else so I assume this is the case. Which is good.
 
The installer itself is very small, I assume it just scoops up what pre-requisites it needs automatically but I could be wrong.
 
MarcLister said:
Thanks for the news. Is this the one that means that previous .NET builds aren't needed all together? As in no need to have .net 2, .net 3 and .net 3.5 installed at the same time.
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i have an application targeted at net 2.0 and i tried it on a fresh XP SP3 install with just net 4 installed and it wouldn't work. :(

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On my x64 machine (up to date) the installer pulled down nothing and updated all files from the installer itself.
 
marc2003 said:
are you sure about that? it's 869kb. that's some serious streamlining right there....
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You downloaded the wrong .NET then because 4.0 linked in the Op is 48.1MB And extracted it's 237MB.

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MD5: 251743DFD3FDA414570524BAC9E55381
 
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It's getting stupid now, they should lump them all together, just like the dx9 updates

Huge installer or websetup.exe
 
.NET 2/3/3.5 were lumped together. You could simply install .NET 3.5 SP1 and get all the previous releases right down to 2.0, automagically. But people didn't like that. So Microsoft changed it in 4.0 so that this version starts off a new "branch" in effect.

Long and short of it is. On a fresh PC, you'll want to install both .NET 3.5 SP1 and .NET 4.0. In order to run any .NET 2/3/3.5/4.0 applications.

It's a darn sight better than Java's release schedule. Every other week there is a new release out with bug fixes, which installs itself into a separate folder on your PC!
 
And lists each update in Add/Remove Programs!

Strangely I cannot find .NET 3.5 SP1 or any other .NET listed in Windows Updates or Add/Remove Programs - even though I know it's installed!

Probably hidden away after the last few Windows Updates or something?
 
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