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AJ152
AJ152

Reputation: 685

Copying Reference assemblies locally

I have a newbie question, say you are using Visual Studio 2012 express to compile an application, and you set ALL the reference assemblies to COPY LOCAL = TRUE it would include them in the application folder path right?, therefore installing C++ Redistributable 2012 isn't necessary anymore, is that a true statement?, or do users still need to install that(C++ Redistributable 2012 ) to be able to run the Application?.

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 170

Answers (1)

Cody Gray
Cody Gray

Reputation: 244692

That is not true. If you are writing a .NET application, the user will need to have the appropriate version of the .NET Framework installed in order to run the application.

But your question is confused. None of that has anything to do with the C++ Redistributable Runtime Library. That will also have to be distributed, but it is completely separate from the .NET Framework. There are three possible ways of handling that dependency:

  1. Installing the redistributable on the user's machine
  2. Using app-local deployment and deploying the required CRT DLLs in the same directory as your EXE
  3. Statically linking to the CRT

Each have their advantages and disadvantages. There isn't enough information in your question about your situation to make a recommendation.

Upvotes: 1

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