Maybe Dot.Net isn't so bad after all.

[IanS]

For years I've avoided deploying anything based on dot.net but now I've started playing with c# and getting to like it. Understanding more about the framework and starting to think that maybe it ain't so bad after all.

What I'd like to know is - in your opinion what percentage of users will already have FrameWork v2 installed on their computers ? That's 'normal' users, not developers or computer experts.

I develop/sell shareware applications. I've been doing this for about 20 years and you may disagree but experience tells me that a user is more likely to complete the install and therefore eventually buy a product if it is small, downloads quickly, installs cleanly and without sending the user off to download other stuff such as frameworks or other modules, drivers, dlls etc that aren't included in the deployment.

I think I'll start my next project targeting FW2 because I think that 'most' potential users will already have FW2 installed.

Maybe you'd suggest other/newer versions of the FW. In that case please tell me - also your reasoning - but please give your vote to my poll about FW2.

Thank you.
Ian