Ric, It's a part of the OS that Microsoft released after XP, so developers have to include it with their software. It's just like the Java Runtime, or Visual Basic's VBRUNxxx.DLL, or MSVCxx.DLL, or DirectX, or similar OS extensions. Microsoft will bundle it with their next OS release (it's already in Windows Server 2003). --Cy-- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Brekne" <Richard.Brekne@grieg.uib.no> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 2:46 PM Subject: Re: Evidence of overlacquered hammers > Hi Bernhard > > The only real beef I had with installing .Net was the size it demanded. > But since this was in reality only a tiny fraction of the 120 megs most > (including mine) hard disks today have I guess that wasnt such a big deal > after all. > > Cheers > RicB > > Bernhard Stopper wrote: > >> Ron, >> the .Net package is a new programming standard that simplifies software >> developers to embed their products also in web based applications. >> Installing the .Net package makes the programs developped with the latest >> Microsoft Visual Studio readable for pre-XP Windows versions. The Net >> package itself does not make automatic connection to the net. (Mensurix 5 >> also makes no automatic connection to the net) But XP does, when using it >> with the standard settings. >> >> regards, >> Bernhard >> > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > >
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