This caught my eye, it sure would be a nice to have tool or feature of VS. I built a tiny .Net app but cant really depoly it as it needs an install of 3.5, inc a reboot and 20-30 mins of install time.
http://www.xenocode.com/Products/Postbuild/
Anyone else seen anything like this or got any ideas? – I’m trying to re-write that app in Delphi!
Ross
These can get expensive but other options are
Thinstall and salamander
Joel has a great post on Microsofts inability to create a linker to convert .net code to native code for their own OS. He has a point.
This is why Delphi is so popular with the ISV crowd
VB6?
I guess this would be kinda esay for MS to do, all they would have to to is make the framework classes aviable a dll’s then link them unquie like to each app, but i guess from there side of thing that kinda miss the point of building the framework in the first place!
As i understand it simon, Salamander and Postbuild acuatal convert the code in to native code? where as thinstall builds a small VM – is that right?
This is where VB 6 excelled. No pun intended. I am serious……… this dot-net stuff really blows.
Ross I’m not sure, to be honest I’m with UIT. I really want to love .net but the whole concept is panttastic.
I’ve never understood why MS thinks Windows is so poor they need to build a whole new layer on top to run actual programs that people want to use.