> Hi Charles,
> Itīs a good point but:
> 1) If the user is installing my software and .net4 itīs a requirement,
> when he agreed installing it, why not install .net4 automatically?
> 2) If itīs a second install, setupbuilder checks if there is or not a
> ..net present, if it founds, sb does not show the installation option.
> But this is something that not bother me.
> Just thinking in making the things easier for my clients...

Hi Peter,

I agree that making things easier is always good.

It is good that SB detects if it is present and does not offer to reinstall
(and I would expect no less from SetupBuilder - I just don't have anything
that uses .NET so I'd not experienced it).


In favor of asking first (and I'm just being the devil's advocate here),
another reason that asking first might be a good idea could be as simple as
maybe they are installing on a machine where they have limited ( or
metered) access and perhaps they don't want to pay for the bandwidth of the
..NET download.

Or perhaps they are doing a quick install of your software on a laptop (or
so they think) and don't have time to complete the .NET download/install
before they have to leave.

Then going back to the original question, perhaps they don't want an
updated (or later on an older) version of .NET on that particular machine.
If someone had a machine that they use for testing at a certain level of
..NET and they installed your software and it updated it without a warning,
they might not be happy about it.

In truth, most customers probably won't care, but there are always those
one-off scenarios where someone is unhappy and rants "Why didn't you want
me you were about to install .NET4?".

As the old saying goes, some folks would complain if you hung them with a
new rope!

:-)

Charles



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