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QUESTION POSED ON: 30 December 2004
I've written a small Windows app in C# using Visual Studio .NET and it runs fine on my machine. But if I put the EXE file on another computer, it won't run - it complains about missing DLL files. Do I have to install the .NET framework on every machine I want to run my program on? How come I can download small Windows applications from the internet and they run on any Windows machine? What language were these programs written in?

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The .NET runtime is required to run any .NET application. You don't expect a Java app to run without installing the JRE, do you? This works the same way.


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