I have windows vista home premium installed with service packs, and can see folders for .NET 3.0 and 3.5, I am told 3.0 is pre-installed with Vista. Yet when I look in IIS under a virtual web directory for available .NET frameworks, I only see choices of 1.0.. and 2.05.. I have been told 3.0 is merely an enhancement of 2.0, but then how could I build an app in 2.0 instead of 3.0? Also how can I choose Framework 3.5 which doesn't show up at all or is it also an enhancement of 2.0 and how could I tell? All these questions are from wanting to load OpenXML format SDK for Framework 3.0, which doesn't seem to be registering the DLL's from that SDK and I feel it is because I am not in the proper Framework, but in 2.0 instead.
Vista on .Net Framework 3.0
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Keep in mind installing the .NET you are just installing the runtime support. If you want to develop using .NET you will need to install the SDKs for whichever version you are wanting to develop on.
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Hi, manonbar, and welcome to the forums.
As Shao said, when installing the *runtimes* (the 3.0 that comes with Vista and the 3.5 you have installed) you are installing only the files needed to run apps developed in .NET 1.0+
Now, AFAICT, The IIS folders only allow for realtime files from 1 and 2 to be ready for use with web apps that will require a lot of working behind it.
Suffice it to say, if you develop an app in .NET 2.0 it should work just fine in Vista.
Now, as to the OpenXML SDK - you might have issues because of the .Net 3.5 installed - did you install that manually or was it installed automatically (as in Windows Update)?
As Shao said, when installing the *runtimes* (the 3.0 that comes with Vista and the 3.5 you have installed) you are installing only the files needed to run apps developed in .NET 1.0+
Now, AFAICT, The IIS folders only allow for realtime files from 1 and 2 to be ready for use with web apps that will require a lot of working behind it.
Suffice it to say, if you develop an app in .NET 2.0 it should work just fine in Vista.
Now, as to the OpenXML SDK - you might have issues because of the .Net 3.5 installed - did you install that manually or was it installed automatically (as in Windows Update)?
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Thanks for the replies. I did find Vista allowed me to test my 3.0 apps using Visual Studio. I still have the problem with OpenXML SDK, the 3.5 Framework version I mentioned for all I know has been there with the Vista or came with it's updates, or from loading Visual Studio 2005, but 3.5 is for 2008 so don't think it got there that way. No special install done by me. I just wanted to know whether the runtime suffices or something has to be installed manually in the Frameworks to make the SDK OpemXML work.