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Genady Beryozkin - 09 Feb 2006 14:39 GMT

Hi,

Our application uses the .NET framework.
How can we install/run the application if the user does not have
.NET and he does not have administrative priviliges.

Any idea will be appreciated.

Genady

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Genady Beryozkin - 09 Feb 2006 15:08 GMT

I found a product called "thinstall", but it does much more than we require.
Anybody knows about similar products?

Genady

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Phil Wilson - 10 Feb 2006 03:41 GMT

This is one of those cases where the prerequisites need admin privilege even
though your installation doesn't. A common solution is to use something like
group policy to get the framework installed, but the best way depends on the
environment, corporate or whatever.

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Genady Beryozkin - 10 Feb 2006 21:58 GMT

That's a good approach (we could even install the .Net MSI using software
policy),
but unfortunately one of our requirements is that no administrator will be
involved in the installation. The user will probably use our app for about
10-30 minutes and then forget about it. He wouldn't go to his sysadmin asking
him to allow the installation in such case.

> This is one of those cases where the prerequisites need admin privilege even
> though your installation doesn't. A common solution is to use something like
> group policy to get the framework installed, but the best way depends on the
> environment, corporate or whatever.

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Phil Wilson - 13 Feb 2006 22:41 GMT

This isn't really only a .NET issue. What do you do when something like MDAC
needs installing, or an install requires some IE or Windows SP as a
pre-requisite, or a newer version of Windows Installer needs to be installed
first?

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> That's a good approach (we could even install the .Net MSI using software
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Genady Beryozkin - 14 Feb 2006 11:29 GMT

In M$ world, you pretty much need to install everything.
We managed to avoid it so far when working with pure VC applications.
I was hoping we could do the same with .NET applications, but apparently
this is not possible.

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> needs installing, or an install requires some IE or Windows SP as a
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