In addition to what Mike said, the next version of Windows will ship with the Framework. For now, the framework is also available from the Windows Update web site, so even users on current versions of Windows can get it. I'm guessing it will also ship in the XP Sevice Pack coming out later this year.

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>Mike;
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>Correct me if I am wrong.
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>In order for a client machine to use an application written using Visual Studio .NET it must have Dotnetfx.exe installed on it. Three methodologies are given at
>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnnetdep/html/vsredistdeploy.asp to accomplish this task.
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>How will users of the Internet be able to instantiate web sites created using Visual Studio .NET? Will they not have to have the Dotnetfx.exe file installed?
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>Our corporation is using an Intranet and hopes to be able to go to the Internet so our suppliers can have easy access to important data. I am just trying to "be prepared" so to speak when the questions start flying.
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>We are using ASP (Visual Interdev 6.0) to accomplish our corporate requirements, one of which is "No external files are allowed or required to run an application. Everything will be done through I.E." That will have to change without question. The Internet users are of concern to me. Any advise would be appreciated.
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>Tom