.NET 3.5 Client Framework redistributable ?

Question

It's nice from Microsoft to offer things like the Client Framework for anybody who doesn't need the complete framework to run an application. But for about an hour I a searching the web for a redistributable version of this package. I can't find anything.

It looks like Client Framework is only possible for Click-Once deployment or a bootstrapper who will download the framework. These are no options for me.

On this page

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=992cffcb-f8ce-41d9-8bd6-31f3e216285c&displaylang=en

I found a package that will contain both

"The download package contains the .NET Framework Client Profile and the full .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1."

But again this is not what I need and it's even bigger that the singleFramework.

Is there anything like the .NET 3.5 Client Framework redistributable ?

Answer 1

If you download the full client package and open it with your favorite compression software (WinZIP, WinRAR, 7-zip, IZArc, ...), you'd be able to extract several setup files named:

• DotNetFx20Client_Package_x86.exe (14 MiB)
• DotNetFx30Client_Package_x86.exe (8 MiB)
• DotNetFx35Client_Package_x86.exe (< 1MiB)

It seems that they are cumulative installer for the 3 versions of client framework.

But I have no idea if you can redistribute these package directly, whithout the full package.

Answer 2

There is no official Redistributable version for v3.5. I've been searching for one myself but I've given up.

The only possibility is, some knowledgeable person identified where the web-installer downloaded the files, put them together in a nice package and uploaded it somewhere.

Of course, if Google can't give you the answer to THAT package, its highly unlikely that you'll find one.