first of all, I would like to say that I don't like the way things are going on this thread, It seems we are getting nervous. I'm not native english and sometimes I can seem a little rude just becouse I'm trying to find the words to say something, and I tend to be a little, as flameduck says, "postulating". I apologize if that makes my comments a little bit unpolite. that is not my intention. no way.
the best advice is always to install last stable release. BLIde is running on .net 2.0 and 3.0 perfectly. It also runed on 1.1 in the past. All the .net framework are deployed as full instalations by Microsoft, and not as updates. If you want to know why, it would be better to ask them. If you want me to name one application, what about Sony Vegas?
that's not true. I've been using .net 2.0 on a windows 98, on a Tablet PC, on windows XP SP1, on Windows XP SP2, and on windows vista. To be cross platform doesn't mean to be part of the OS, means to be runable on diferent platforms (once installed). I mean, BlitzMax is cross platform, not becouse it is part of any OS, but becouse it can be run in several, the same as .net frameworks.
It will be better becouse it will not be wrapped by a 'compatibility dll' based system that, in fact, calls the .net framework. so it is faster.
What? That doesn't even make sense!
well, some parts of the Vista API are themselves written in .net, spetially all the aereo library. How could you call this apis without using the .net framewok?What? That doesn't even make sense!
Well that's a somewhat ignorant assumption, considering most people don't even have the hardware to run it, much less use it for anything.
The same was happening when XP was released. My computer runs vista with Aereo and it has two years. saying MacOSX supports XWindows is like saying Windows supports Linux.
That's not true, XWindows is part of the MacOsX since 10.3.11 on PPC based macintosh. There are very used applications such as OpenOffice that runs on MAC using the XWindows system. I can't imagine a native support for Linux on Windows... A JIT compiler is a peice of software that takes an arbitrary language (MSIL or Java Bytecode) and just in time to execute it on the target computer, compiles it to a native binary.
That's right. I was confusing words. Thanks for making it clear. Name one. At the same time, explain why my "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework" folder contains the following folders: v1.0.3705, v1.1.4322 and v2.0.50727? Surely if your claims of backwards compatibility where not make believe, only the later of the three frameworks would have to be installed?
the best advice is always to install last stable release. BLIde is running on .net 2.0 and 3.0 perfectly. It also runed on 1.1 in the past. All the .net framework are deployed as full instalations by Microsoft, and not as updates. If you want to know why, it would be better to ask them. If you want me to name one application, what about Sony Vegas?
And by the way, .Net (and certainly not 3.0) isn't cross platform. It doesn't even work on Windows operating systems, with the exeption of Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista.
that's not true. I've been using .net 2.0 on a windows 98, on a Tablet PC, on windows XP SP1, on Windows XP SP2, and on windows vista. To be cross platform doesn't mean to be part of the OS, means to be runable on diferent platforms (once installed). I mean, BlitzMax is cross platform, not becouse it is part of any OS, but becouse it can be run in several, the same as .net frameworks.