Need CLR info for deployment on non-XP platforms

[KEhlar]

Our team is considering using C# to for a product development. However, some of our clients still use Windows NT, therefore we need to support the NT platform. My understanding of .Net is that the deployed machine must have the Common Language Runtime installed. Is the CLR a simple dll file, or is it a host of files that need to be installed via an MSI? Does XP come with CLR already installed? Can I download it from somewhere? I couldn't find it on www.microsoft.com.

Thanks.

[RickCrone]

I would create a solution with a simple application add a Setup project and edit the property of the dotnetfxredist....msm to NOT exclude. Install in on a NT machine an see if it works.

[jameshocking]

Goto the following URL; http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/downloads/redist.aspx Here you should find the setup package necessary to install .Net upon a client workstation.

One thing worth noting is that the setup package needs to be installed separately from your own installation or it did with v1.0.

We develop with .Net 1.0 and yet some of our clients are running 1.1 without issue.

Other than that everything should work fine. I have users on W2k, NT4, and Me all using C# based software without any issues.

As for XP, I believe that too needs the .Net runtime installed upon it, although I'm not too sure about SP1.