Stupid questions. no code involed.

[AmmerBow]

If I create a program in VB.NET, Do the end clients I run it on have to have the .net framework or anything else?

I'm currently just a VB6 user that is thinking of going to .net
Is it worth moving to .net (dumb question i know)

[stems]

Your program user will need the net framework. This will be included with future OS. The distributable net framework can be downloaded from MS site.

Go for net, this is the future.

[Kt3]

I read somewhere that Microsoft plans on porting the .Net framework to Linux and Mac, but I don't remember what the source was, or if it was reliable.

As far as ASP.NET goes, I'm pretty sure that some people got it to work run on Apache instead of IIS, I'm not sure if that meant Win32, Linux, or both, but I'm guessing it's Win32 only. Mozilla is compatible with ASP.NET pages... what else.. that's all I can think of for now.

Oh yeah, XML Web Services (a feature of ASP.NET) can talk to clients built in other languages besides .Net. So if you create an XML Web Service, someone else could create a Java or C++ app to consume it. Although, of course, using .NET would still be the easiest way, hands down.

I've seen the future, man, and it is .NET! The sheer amount of functionality is incredible. I guarantee you it won't be a waste of your time.


Later on,
KT

[mendhak]

Originally posted by AmmerBow
If I create a program in VB.NET, Do the end clients I run it on have to have the .net framework or anything else?

I'm currently just a VB6 user that is thinking of going to .net
Is it worth moving to .net (dumb question i know)

You'll have to move to .NET eventually.

Nice avatar, btw.