Packaging a .NET Application So It Will Run On A Computer Without .NET

Question

I have been recently trying to deploy a C# application on a computer that does not have .NET installed.

I know that there have been many questions around th

Answer 1

For .NET, you really must just install the appropriate .NET framework. The .NET framework installation does include command line options to allow for silent installs, such as:

dotnetfx35.exe /q /norestart

For details on the command line options, see the options for 3.5 and for .NET 4.0.

That being said, most installation packages will handle these details for you as part of the installation. Using a decent installer will take care of this dependency automatically.