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Asked: 2026-05-13T05:54:43+00:00

Is creating applications which don’t depend on all of the framework components possible? I

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Is creating applications which don’t depend on all of the framework components possible? I know that you can merge the framework with the app but the whole framework is about 20mb and I’m not sure if all of it is used.

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  1. Editorial Team

    if you’re asking if you can create a C# application that can be run on a machine without the .NET framework installed, the answer is no. C# apps (as with other managed apps) need the runtime provided by the framework to run.

    Edit

    Correction. I was wrong, but with caveats.

    See the following link:

    http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/faq/#framework.required

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