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Skriven 2008-12-05 19:53:19 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av ED VANCE (1:123/140)
Ärende: Another XP SP3 Problem
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ED VANCE -> CHARLES SCAGLIONE wrote:
 CS>> TOM WALKER -> ALL wrote:

 TW>>> XP Service Pack 3 blocks .NET security patches

 TW>>> By Susan Bradley

 TW>>> Installing SP3 on Windows XP eliminates the operating system's
 EV> ability
 TW>>> to install important security patches for Microsoft's .NET
 EV> technology
 TW>>> and possibly other software.

 CS>> One more reason to stay away from the bloated .NET Frame downloads.
 EV> Unless y
 CS>> absolutely need it to run some program you have, my advice is to
 EV> avoid .NET
 CS>> altogether.

 CS>> However, for the folks who are running Vista, .NET comes
 EV> pre-installed along
 CS>> with the OS.

 EV> Charles,

 EV> Somewhere in my mind I remember seeing that .NET versions were
 EV> Microsofts replacement for VBRUN?00.DLL files for use with the NT OS
 EV> instead of the older DOS/WINx OSs.

In part... As the name suggests, the VBRUN* files are Visual Basic Run-time
libraries, for programs created using Microsoft's Visual Basic programming
environments.

..NET is more ambitious- providing a common development environment for recent
generations of a range of Microsoft's programming languages- newer versions of
Visual Basic, but also Java, C++, C#, and more. The ..NET downloads provide
cross-language services.

And they are MUCH larger-- as much larger and complex than the VBRUN files than
Windows Vista is compared to Win 3.1.
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