
630 Chapter 13 • Application Deployment
If (and how) Microsoft is going to deal with licensing and distribution of the
.NET runtime environment is not known at this point. It is likely that the .NET
runtime environment will become a default component of the Windows XP dis-
tribution because they put so much emphasis on the .NET Architecture.
Windows Installer
Using the Windows Installer 2.0 to install a complex .NET application is highly
recommended, because this Installer version can recognize assemblies and work
with them accordingly. Some of these features are the following:
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Adding and removing, and repairing if necessary, assemblies in the
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