how to make my c# program run on any computer(Please Help)

[kariem2k]

hello
i heard that c# and visualbasic .Net programms Runs Only on a machine that have .NET Framework installed on it and also i heard that it's size is 17 megs.
is that true
and if it is true is there an altrnative thing to deploy my prog.
to run on any machine.
thanks

[DdH]

Everything you've heared is true.

You must install the .NET framework on all machine where you want to run a .NET assembly written in C#, VB.NET or any other .NET language.

I haven't heared about an alternative yet.

[Brad Jones]

Future versions of Windows -- starting with Windows 2003 Server due out in the next month or two -- will have the runtime built in. This means you won't need the extra programs to distribute your .NET program to these new machines.

As already stated, you will, however, need the redistributables for any other versions of Windows you distribute to.

Brad!

[pareshgh]

you have heard is true,
the stuff you need is
'.NET runtime re-distribution '
which is simillar to JVM.
so need to have that. if you run in another problem then it might be authentication issue. for example u run the program from remote machine andthe current machine doesn't give permision or so...

Paresh