[casual_games] .NET and Silverlight

[Chris Williams]

Agreed....  Done poorly, slapping in bits and pieces of .NET could possibly
screw up someone's machine that already has .NET or prevent them from
performing a proper upgrade (to a newer version of .NET) down the road.

Better to use the .net runtime on an as-needed basis.  Many folks may not
need it at all.




On 6/4/07, Joe Pantuso <jpantuso at traygames.com> wrote:

>

> Bundling .NET into your program is a very bad idea.  This forces every

> user of your game to download an extra 10-20 megs of material that they most

> likely do not need.  Please don't do it :-)  Making a proper installer is

> not that hard, also most of the major installer systems offer on-demand .NET

> as a standard feature.

>

> The Vista information is obvious.  The other information is based on

> quotes from MS a couple years ago.

>

>

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