Bundling .NET in installer [closed]

Question

Would you (or your customers) rather download a 1mb installer and perhaps be prompted to download and install .NET, or a 23mb installer and never need to even know what .NET is?

Chris

Answer 1

Can't you detect if the framework is installed when they're downloading and serve up the appropriate installer? This way a user that hasn't isn't penalized, and a user that doesn't have it gets the full install.

As an aside, our app is a small download and dynamically downloads the frameworks it needs, but we don't target a "commercial" audience. Ours is much more of a niche app, so your YMMV.