>>>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....
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>So what about his point on the "new" revisions. How large is the update going to be each time, even after .net is part of the OS?

Taking a step back and looking at it from a '20,000 foot view'; MS has taken away 'dll hell' and replaced it with '.net revision hell'.

With Visual Studio 6 as mature as it is I've solved many `dll hell`
issues and I am 100% comfortable with any difficulties in the deployment process.

I am far less familiar with the problems associated with the deployment of a .NET application.