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Updated Bootstrapper FAQ

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Busy, busy, busy time here in Building 41.   The shipping cadence of Visual Studio 2005 beat louder every second!  In the mean time however, I have updated the Bootstrapper FAQ.

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  • Anonymous
    October 27, 2005


    I have noticed the dotnet fx 2.0 redist when installing uses the bootstrapping to preinstall its prerequites. Fine. Unfortunately one of these is the Windows Installer 3.0 which, when clicked, leads to a WGA walled web page from the Microsoft download center.

    As a .NET 2.0 developer, there is no way I am deploying .NET 2.0 apps on client machines anytime soon with such obstacles. I am talking about WGA. I am certainly not going to inflinge my users this.

    Those obstacles clearly make things harder to deploy, not simpler. I am sure the bootstrapper team could do nothing about that, but what matters is the overall user experience. I am not going to write lengthy support documentation about going through all of this either.

    Better stick to older .NET 1.x run-time versions.

    Or better yet, forget about deploying .NET apps altogether.

    What's your thoughts?

    (also sent to Aaron Stebner)
  • Anonymous
    October 31, 2005
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    October 31, 2005
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