I'm developing my application under framework 2.0 right now. And it might be possible for the framework 3.0 to release when the application is distributed.

My questions are:

1. I check the framework 2.0 as a prerequisite in the setup module. I wonder what's going to happen if the target machine has the framework 3.0 installed already.

2. Is that ok to distribute framework 3.0 with my application? Will the application works ok under framework 3.0?

3. Can I check framework 3.0 as a prerequisite in order to distribute framework 3.0 package?

Thanks

1. The 3.0 Frameworks includes 2.0, so if you select 2.0 as a pre-requisite and you go to install on a machine that has 3.0, the bootstrapper will detect that 2.0 is already installed and will not try to re-install it.

2. Your 2.0 compiled application will run as expected on the 3.0 .NET Frameworks.

3. We don't currently have a .NET Frameworks redist bootstrapper package. You could create one once the .NET Frameworks redist is release using Bootstrapper Manifest Generator. Otherwise, look for the next release of Visual Studio.