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Will .NET 4.0 apps work on Win 2008 R2 Server Core?

When Windows Server 2008 R2 was launched, the "server core" edition started to become useful to me, because it lets me deploy .NET background applications isolated on their own virtual machine instance with only a small fraction of all the disk space overhead of a default Windows Server installation, and very few Windows Updates. It comes with a subset of .NET 3.5 SP1 integrated (as an optional feature).

Now that .NET 4.0 is released, the redistributables explicitly state that it's not support on Server Core. Any chance that there will be a separate download available for Server Core (e. g. without WPF) any time soon, has anybody heard about it?

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Anything I have read says no. I would imagine that this will change but unfortunately it doesn't look like it will be soon.

DeanMc  2010-04-13 14:40:23
Not the answer I wanted to here, but the only answer ;-) Thanks.
markus  2010-04-14 12:09:59
I know, sorry. Although given that they are trying to split the framework into distinct parts so you only download what you need you may find you get 4.0 quicker that you think.
DeanMc  2010-04-14 12:44:49

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