.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.