Wednesday, 21 February 2007

.Net 2.0 Framework redist does not include configuration manager

Interestingly, MS decided not to include the control panel/admin/.net configuration tool with the redist version of .Net 2. Seems a bit odd as this is a useful tool for configuring .Net on servers and it does come with the 1.1 redist. To get it now you need to install the 2.0 SDK (some 300+Mb) where the config manager now resides.

For reasons as to why they moved it and workarounds, see Aaron Stebner's Blog Entry on the topic. I still disagree that the manager should come only with the SDK - the tool is very useful for managing the assembly cache for example. Looking at developer feedback, my guess is that it will be added back into the redist for future versions...

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