Installing .NET on a Client

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What you actually, practically, have to do to install .NET components on a .NET'less client to make it capable of running applications developed with C. No, it's not a one click experience...

Required Pre-Requisite: Windows NT Service Pack 6a or higher.

Required Pre-Requisite : MDAC 2.6 or later to support applications that include data access.

Use Regedit to check HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DataAccess | FullInstallVer.

If this is more than 2.6 e.g. 2.70.7713.4 then the necessary MDAC support is already installed.

If not, or if you want to upgrade the existing MDAC install to the latest version, get the MDAC_TYP.EXE (5.0 MB) install from : http://www.microsoft.com/data/

At this time 'MDAC 2.7 RTM Refresh (2.70.9001.0)' is the latest MDAC available for NT4.0. The manifest for this release is at: http://www.microsoft.com/data/MDAC27Info/en/readmerefresh.htm Note : Msdadc.dll and Oledb32.dll get updated by the install.

You will be required to re-boot the machine when the MDAC install is complete.

Required Pre-requisite: Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.01 or later.

To install Internet Explorer 6.0 : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/ie6/default.asp

Optional Pre-requisite : the Core WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)

The latest WMI (1.5) Install is available from :
http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/?url=/downloads/sample.asp?
url=/msdn-files/027/001/576/msdncompositedoc.xml&frame=true

The install will display a dialog on startup if it finds an earlier version of WMI on the machine (but it won't bother to tell you what the earlier version is).

The download is wmint4.exe (3.738MB)

Install WMI by running wmint4.EXE (double-click the file from your Windows Explorer). This will create directories for WMI in the system folder.

Required Pre-requisite if installing on a server : Internet Information Services (IIS) version 5.0 or later.

Finally we get to install the .NET framework itself :

Get it (dotnetredist.exe ) this from this page :

To install :

1. The first step is just an unpack.

The default unpack directory is c:\temp, and the toad who wrote the install was too lazy to let you create an alternate directory, only pick an existing one, so if you are tight for space on the C: drive, first make a directory on a drive with space free.

Double-click dotnetredist.exe.

This will extract 'dotnetfx.exe to the default c:\temp directory (or the alternate directory if you specified one), and exit without telling you what to do next.

2. Double click on 'dotnetfx.exe'. This will launch the actual .NET Framework install.

You will be required to re-boot the machine when the install is complete.