Hi John

Actually, I phrased the question just to generate discussion. That plan worked very well, since it got your attention. <g>

I'm OK with the idea of requiring a set of stuff in the machine. Don't Windows applications all have to have Windows. ;)

>>http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/PleaseLinker.html
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>Fox has a runtime library...what's the big deal - considering that .NET will end up shipping with Windows anyway??????
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>I think Joel may be factually inaccurate here....

Please elaborate.