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date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 23:52:55 -0700,
group: microsoft.public.dotnet.framework
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Re: Feedback about experiences deploying .Net 3.5
"Oriane" <oriane@noemail.noemail> wrote in message
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>> My company is considering moving up from .Net 2.0 to .Net 3.5(SP1) as a
>> prerequisite on the ClickOnce deployment for our application.
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>> Does anybody have any experience deploying .Net 3.5 either as a
>> prerequisite, or just by itself? Have you had any problems installing it?
> No I haven't any experience of this kind.
Do you mean you haven't had any experience deploying it, or you haven't had
any problems?
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>> One issue I've seen reported is when pushed as a prerequisite, it
>> progresses so far during installation, then sits there for a long time
>> seemingly doing nothing, and then finishes. Has anyone seen this?
> Yes it is. the 3.5 installation is very slow !
> But you should notice that ClickOnce has been enhanced with the 3.5 SP1,
> and perhaps you could deploy the SP1...
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We would definitely deploy .Net 3.5 SP-1; we have already updated our
versions of Visual Studio. I'm not sure that would be any smaller than .Net
2.0, although I have heard rumors that it is better at "partial installs",
i.e. if the user already has .Net 2.0, it only installs the extra bits.
Thanks,
RobinS.
GoldMail.com
date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:35:35 -0700
author: RobinS
RE: Feedback about experiences deploying .Net 3.5
RobinS,
Yes I apparently seem to have deployment problem. My application is a wpf
application developed using VS2008 sp1 and .NET 3.5 sp1.
During deployment, it needs .NET 3.5 sp1 (otherwise application will crash
even on 3.5 without sp1 - in a sense the term "sp1" is misleading, the
compatibility between 3.5 & 3.5 sp1 has indeed broken - logically sp1 is
really some target version > 3.5 ). But when users try to install 3.5 sp1, it
took 40 minutes just to install .net framework - I have encountered two cases
with users one in vista and another in xp sp2. There is also no such thing as
.NET 3.5 sp1 runtime/compact/re-distributable version that microsoft has
posted (just to take care of minimal runtime to be installed for deployment
environment).
Bottomline is:- during deployment, installation of .net 3.5 sp1 takes 40
minutes - one can bear with it during development but unacceptable for normal
users during deployment (they can't just wait for 40 minutes for your
application dependencies to be installed). I am trying to contact microsoft
and get this fixed (refer my new post with title as ** 40 minutes **).
New technologies (such as .NET 3.5 sp1) certainly bring exciting features
for developers but its real stability of deployment & runtime needs to be
watched closely. I hope that microsoft will proactively help to fix the
bugs/problems as quickly as possible - otherwise these things will be
unusable by the end users. I also request to share your experience of
deployment & fixes (were your users be able to install .NET 3.5 sp1 in less
time - say under 5 minutes - no matter what they did or did not have
previously in their client desktop)?
Thanks
G. Narayanan
"RobinS" wrote:
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> My company is considering moving up from .Net 2.0 to .Net 3.5(SP1) as a
> prerequisite on the ClickOnce deployment for our application.
>
> Does anybody have any experience deploying .Net 3.5 either as a
> prerequisite, or just by itself? Have you had any problems installing it?
>
> One issue I've seen reported is when pushed as a prerequisite, it progresses
> so far during installation, then sits there for a long time seemingly doing
> nothing, and then finishes. Has anyone seen this?
>
> I would greatly appreciate any feedback or information anyone can relate.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> RobinS.
> GoldMail.com
>
>
date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:30:05 -0800
author: G Narayanan am
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