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Originally Posted by lumpynose
You're lucky. At my last job the sysadmins were required to install a very locked down version of Windows and you couldn't install apps and had to submit a request for them to install it.
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Yeah I know. I've never worked somewhere that restrictive myself but colleagues have and I've been on site with customers who have.
We're given a lot of free reign on the basis that we're software engineers but honestly we don't need to do stuff on our own machines except for convenience. I have a separate Windows VM I use for any Windows development though one of my colleagues has dev environments on his laptop.
A previous local IT manager was always trying to get the policy changed. To be honest from a general point of view I agree, from a personal point of view it's nice to have more freedom.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
If ADE uses .NET 3.5, its installer should check whether or not it's present on the system and install it if not. Relying on the end user to know how to install runtime support files is very poor practice.
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That's exactly what it tries to do. It fails because the download link no longer works. The way to install it now is to go into the "add windows features" control panel. And before you say it, I don't think they hard-coded a particular link into their installer. It has the look and feel of a standard install component that was provided at the time - pretty sure I've seen the same dialogs pop up on other installers - which Microsoft have now changed at their end.
Remember 2.0.1 is about 6 years old. A lot has changed in that time.
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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
ADE as far back as at least ver1.7.2 does not need NET 3.5 in order to be installed or run with Windows 10 OS. NET 3.5 does not exist on the PCs I use ADE on.
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Versions prior to 2.0.1 did not require .NET at all, 2.0.1 does. That's one reason why I stuck with 1.7.2 for a long time because it was hard/impossible to install 2.0.1 under Wine. Wine improved enough to make it possible.