Comments on: Be careful of .Net Framework hell Microsoft

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 21:37:30 +0000

Thanks for the link Ricardo!

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:28:16 +0000

Hey.

I thought you might like to know that i found a way to install SyncToy for XP… having seen the same problem you saw.

If you go here:

http://www.hannes-pavelka.com/MSIInstallerComplainsSetupRequiresNetFrameworkVersion114322ButVersion20IsInstalled.aspx),

you’ll get the solution. It basically modifies the *.msi file so that it no longer checks for .Net version on install. A bit of a hack i guess… but it worked for me.

I agree with your concerns about “.Net hell”… but I do believe .Net is much better designed that COM ever was. I guess there’s still just a few issues to be worked out.

salud!

By: Haidong Ji

Haidong Ji — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 18:36:04 +0000

No problem Phil J.

Unfortunately, I didn’t find a way to get around it. I agree, synctoy is a neat tool. Too bad we couldn’t use it now.

I heard good words about another tool called robocopy, available from Windows 2003 Resource Kit. Here is a link to some description:

http://webtools.live2support.com/windows/robocopy.php

By: Phil J

Phil J — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 12:15:18 +0000

Hi Haidong Ji,

Thanks for your blog post. I briefly used synctoy on a previous XP install, and liked it.

However after rebuilding my PC I find I have the same .net version error as you. I think I may need to uninstall the new version of the .net framework, find an old version, and try again.

I was wondering if you have found another way to get around this problem?

Regards,
Phil J
Australia