Hello all,
I am building a web application that has very high requirement. I wanted to build it first in silverlight and activex, with javascript breaching between them. Later I started considering using xbap. The problem is that xbap demands .net 3.0, and before starting to write an application with such demands I wanted to have a general understanding on the amount of window OS users who have .net framework 3.0 installed. Does anyone has an idea? where can I find such estimations? Thank you!
If you have statistics for your website (or feel like coding up such), .NET versions will be sent as part of the User-Agent for IE and Firefox (atleast, I don't use any other browsers, so can't speak for them) by default. You can then get statistics for the people that actually matter: your users.
That aside (or if you don't have a public website at all yet), then you can always do detection code and tell people to go download it if they need it. If you have a site/application that people want to use, most if not all won't begrudge downloading a browser plugin or two.
Well what you really want is the percentage of your users that have .net 3.0. Do you have a website already? This information is given in the user-agent.