Is there a redistributable web installer for .net framework 4.0? Preferably, it’d detect the correct language version to install and download it from the internet.
I want to bundle this web installer with my 4.0 application, so that the download size of setup package is as small as possible (40MB of full offline installer could scare users), plus I don’t want to deal with detecting the necessary version (x86, x64, which language) to install.
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As to how I create the setup. I’ll go for the easiest option. My application is really trivial. I just need to copy some files and make shortcuts in Start Menu / Desktop.
What’s the simplest/fastest solution to this? The setup project that can be build with VS (I’m using VS 2010).
Within your setup project you should embed the .Net 4 Framework. But instead of adding the full offline version you simply download and embed this web installer. It checks the currently running machine and downloads only the necessary files. So everyone who already has the .Net framework installed just gets 870kb of death data with your setup (thats the size of the web installer) and anybody else downloads as much as needed for the current machine.