Missing .Net Framework (Ultimate (SP1))

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Not looking for trouble, but just curious…

In Windows XP I had Framework installed, not sure why but suspect it was needed for some of my apps. I upgraded to Vista a year ago and essentially am running the same applications that I had in the XP environment. However, no where do I find an installation of any version of .NET Framework.

Not having any problems running any of my apps, so will leave sleeping-dogs-lie.

Any thoughts / comments?

Cheers, Bob

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It is my understanding that NET is a part of Vista, and that you can’t have Vista without it. Why not install something like Paint.net, which requires it, just to see what happens?

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And darn well worth having too!

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Hi Al,

If I am not mistaken, I believe you used to, perhaps still have, Paint Shop Pro. Can’t remember the version you might have been running. If still running PSP how do you find Paint.net compared to PSP.

Cheers, Bob

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I do still use PSP version 10 – MOST of the time. It’s kinda like I’m doing with Vista. I’ll have something to do so I try to remember to use Paint.Net unless I’m pressed for time. I’m still very low on the learning curve with it but I haven’t found anything that I usually do with PSP that I can’t do with Paint.Net. For example, I’m used to a menu in PSP under Image called “Image Information” which is where I first look to see the dimensions of a pix. In Paint.Net a day or so ago, I couldn’t find the blankety-blank info in the menus and it was driving me nuts. Well, whaddya know, there it is, down at the bottom staring me in the face…

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If you do want to try something ‘fancy’ that is not in the standard Paint.net product, you should check their Paint.NET • View forum – Plugins – Publishing Only. There is a lot of cool and some rather weird stuff there.

Joe

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Hi Peter, thanks for your suggestion.

I provided more information in this reply to Hans about finding some .Net components on my system.

Regarding Paint.Net… I currently have Paint Shop Pro X2 and Adobe Photoshop Elements on my system. I guess I could always add Paint.net to the mixture.

Cheers, Bob

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Here it is in Control Panel.

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Thanks – so .Net Framework 3.0 is a Vista component. I have added a note to my reply higher up in this thread, referring to your reply.

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Added later: this reply is incorrect – see post 726,509 further down in this thread

The .Net Framework is not a Windows component. It’s the runtime part of .Net, needed by programs written in one of the .Net languages. If you don’t have any of those, you don’t need the .Net Framework either.

If you ever decide to install the .Net Framework, you can go to Microsoft Update and click Custom. The .Net Framework (several versions of it) should be listed under Optional Software.

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Sorry for the delayed response. Energetic puppy still occupying spare-time-activities.

My earlier comment about not having found evidence of .Net Framework was based on the single fact that there is nothing shown in the Add/Remove Program component in my Vista Ultimate environment. I believe, but not 100% positive, that it was shown in my XP environment.

Anyway, I combed the directories and found evidence of .Net buried in the C:WindowsMicrosoft.NET folder. There are 4 versions in sub folders. Versions 1.0 and 1.1 do not have extensive number of files, but just a few dll’s. Versions 2.0 and 3.0 appear to be more complete.

Through additional research, I was able to determine that .Net Framework was installed when I installed Vista. When I performed the update process as part of the installation task, two security updates were applied to 2.0 and 3.0. This was a year ago. Nothing since.

To the best of my knowledge, I do not have any applications requiring .Net. So, I will leave those sleeping dogs lie. Now, if I could only convince my 11 month old Lab to do likewise I could get back to more surfing!!!

Thanks again…

Cheers, Bob

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