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How do you distribute a .NET application?

Before starting to develop a desktop application, I was interested to know how large the installer is if I create it in .NET?

Now .NET is probably 5 years old. Should we include application runtime? Or can we assume that most users will install it on their system? Does Vista migrate with .NET installed? Finally, can we assume that most XP users have already installed the CLR on their system?

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It’s easy to determine if targeting is on the .NET platform, and if not, tell users where to download them. I am not a fan of reinstalling the bootstrap installer; something a hacker will do. Let the user get it directly from the source.

Vista comes with 3.5. XP SP2 comes with 2.0 XP SP2 is required for .NET 2.0, but .NET is never installed by default for XP systems; its always optional. This is almost the minimum specification for any MS desktop system; if they are running XP sp1 or earlier, I would avoid them unless you have specific requirements (embedded systems, dumb / stubborn user base, etc.).

edit: I could have sworn that SP2 came with .NET 2.0, but I can’t find the final information about this.

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.NET was included in XP Service Pack 2 (SP2) in 2004 or so .. I would say that it is normal to assume that most people have it.

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