Rick Brewster Posted September 20, 2005 Share Posted September 20, 2005 .NET was specifically designed to allow multiple versions of itself to be installed, so don't worry about having both of them installed. We built Paint.NET to work with .NET 1.1, and thus we require it to be present. .NET 2.0 is not just some superset of .NET 1.1 -- it changes how some things behave! Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted September 20, 2005 Author Share Posted September 20, 2005 Moved from the Bugs forum because this is not a bug! Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 Yeah, if you install .NET 1.1, then install Paint.NET, then install .NET 2.0, and then uninstall .NET 1.1 ... it'll still work. Probably. No guarantees, of course (we certainly haven't tested it out). Our installer requires that .NET 1.1 is installed, but we don't enforce that when our app runs. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomevent Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 I hope you'll change that in the installer, cause damn...all my .net apps seem a lot slicker with only 2.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 We will not be changing that requirement with our v2.5 release. You can have both .NET 1.1 and .NET 2.0 installed at the same time, and we have not done any testing under .NET 2.0. It might run fun or it might crash and die or corrupt things in other mysterious and random ways. We can't know until we get enough time with it. Like our FAQ, http://www.eecs.wsu.edu/paint.net/faq.htm , says (emphasis added): I already have .NET 2.0 installed, why does Paint.NET say that .NET 1.1 is required?The first thing to understand is that the various versions of the .NET Framework are designed to be installable together in a side-by-side fashion. If you have .NET 1.0 and .NET 1.1 installed, and run a program that was built to run on .NET 1.0, then it will use the .NET 1.0 DLL's and functionality even though .NET 1.1 is present. Newer versions of .NET do not necessarily supercede older versions. Quite often functionality is added or changed in newer versions and it's very important to us that Paint.NET functions in exactly the way we designed it to. The confusing part for the user is that installing .NET 2.0 does not install .NET 1.1 or 1.0. With other redistributable packages, such as DirectX 9.0, you are actually installing all the previous versions as well. .NET uses a different type of versioning that is alien for most users (and many developers) at this time. Because of all this, we can't yet predict how Paint.NET will behave if it is run with .NET 2.0. It may run fine for the most part, or maybe it will behave oddly, crash, or worse. Because we prefer that Paint.NET run reliably for users, we require that .NET 1.1 is installed even if .NET 2.0 is already there. If you already have .NET 2.0 installed, you simply need to install .NET 1.1 as well. It will not erase or corrupt your .NET 2.0 installation. Our v2.6 release will be built completely on top of .NET 2.0. The timing is just not that great in this one case. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomevent Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Hey I'm not tryin to be a pain in the < no swearing >, I just am I don't mean to imply you have to do it, I was just hoping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Brewster Posted October 27, 2005 Author Share Posted October 27, 2005 Oh, we are doing it. Just not for v2.5. Quote The Paint.NET Blog: https://blog.getpaint.net/ Donations are always appreciated! https://www.getpaint.net/donate.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randomevent Posted October 27, 2005 Share Posted October 27, 2005 Rock on. My thanks to you and everyone else who is working/has worked on the project for the free stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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