Hello Bobby,
Saturday, March 22, 2008, 9:54:20 AM, you wrote:
Wow, my message took about 12 hours to post! I sent it at 8:25 last night
and got this one at 6:32 this morning.
Yeah, I noticed a tad bit O lag also.
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Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
Yep, it's OK to use I believe they started the dot Net stuff when
they were told to cease and desist the MS Java engine they used to make...
Thane Sherrington wrote:
At 06:43 PM 21/03/2008, DHSinclair wrote:
Just WHAT is this MS Dot-NET 2.0 software?
I do not use it, and now, Intuit
Steinie, Brian, Thane, Bobby,
Thanks for the crisp answers. dot-net makes perfect sense now. Remember the
VB and Java business of old. I installed it yesterday on another machine to
peek/poke. Not much to see. Will install here today and get on with business.
Thank you so much,
Duncan
At
Its needed because a part (or all of) the program was written using
the .net language. Sort of like why you need JVM to run java apps.
Look up .net on wikipedia for more details on what makes .net an
increasingly popular programming language.
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Brian Weeden
Technical Consultant
Thane,
I do understand your example, and do recall the need for latest VB runtimes
on several occasions. But this was way back in the early 90's w/OSR2 and
Win98se. But, I never dabbled in VB actively much. Used it mostly for
background ops that required it IIRC mostly MSOffice apps. and
I advance searched (Googled):
.net required
and got 228,000,000 hits...
I'm thinking it is gaining traction... grin
A sample one is here.
http://www.threetwists.com/support/dotnetfx.htm
They explain it fairly well...
Disclaimer: I never heard of them before and did not
bother to
That is how I knew their detector tool only looked for the one...
You are right also in that the detector tool is next to useless, but
easy for beginers...
Rick Glazier
From: Wayne Johnson
If .NET is installed on your system then it should be listed in
Is there a website (other than M$) that can explain the dot-net business
for a non-programmer?
I have never used anything dot-net that I am aware of, but still recall many
negative comments about most things dot-net. Perhaps time for more
study of the subject.
Thanks,
Duncan
This email scanned
There are many, many dot-net oriented yahoo and google groups. Join a few
and let the message traffic flow by, you will pick up a lot.
If you want the standing-on-one-foot answer, .Net is all about the creation
of a layer that holds the most common functions and services needed by any
Would it be too much of a stretch to say it was the new MS answer
to JRE (JavaVM) after they (effectively) got kicked out of that?
(Sorry if I got the wrong idea somewhere...)
Rick Glazier
From: G.Waleed Kavalec
clipped: .Net is all about the
Take a mix of the Java VM and the old VB runtimes,
add some steroids and mass quantities of man-hours,
stir, simmer...
No you aren't wrong, it's just not the whole story.
My impression is that MS did with CLR for developers what they did with the
Windows interface for end-usres; taking lots and
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