Re: Stand Alone EXE

From: Brett (no_at_spam.com)
Date: 03/18/05 

Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 15:16:31 -0500

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.1ca538fe37b756ac98be8d@msnews.microsoft.com...
> Jim Hubbard <reply@groups.please> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>> >But if the program takes a few extra seconds to load ands takes up an
>> >extra
>> >meg on their hard drive it is much more user friendly.
>>
>> Thinstall apps are still a lot larger than a simple exe output from .Net.
>> I
>> did an experiment with Washington University's .Net rewrite of the
>> classic
>> Paint program. If you downloaded the .Net framework and the code needed
>> to
>> run Paint 2.0 it added up to over 27 MB. The same application compiled
>> with
>> Thinstall was just over 14 MB and needed no installation, needed no
>> administrator privikeges, and will never have its files overwritten or
>> corrupted because they are all inside the Thinstall EXE.
>>
>> Why didn't Microsoft think of this? They have seen and used Thinstall,
>> and
>> even spoke well of it.
>
> The problem is, as soon as you've got a few programs using Thinstall,
> you end up having downloaded more than you would have done if you'd got
> the real framework and individual small programs...

You give people the option to download the Framework or stand alone EXE.
Explain the benefit of download the Framework as it applies to future .NET
apps they may use. If they are on dial-up and still don't have .NET
Framework, chances are they probably won't for a while. In that case,
they'll more than likely choose the stand alone EXE.

Brett

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