I know that a portable .Net Framework is/would be illegal, however does anyone know of an alternative to .Net Framework v2.0 I have an application that I need to try to run, but it requires .Net Framework v2.0. The problem is that the hotel management software my hotel uses is completely incompatible with .Net Framework v2.0. It does , however require .Net Framework v1.1 to run, so that is installed on the system. It locks up hard with v2.0 on the system. The app is a portable app to make the ribbon in Office 2007 look like 2003. I'd use OpenOffice v3.0, but would you believe it has trouble with one of my spreadsheets?!?! I'm completely stumped. If anyone has any ideas, I'd really appreciate it. Peace...
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Have you tried Mono? It's an open source alternative to the .Net Platform.
Optimism is a moral duty - Karl R. Popper
I'm not sure we can host Mono dependent apps due to the relationship it has with (I think) Novell and through them Microsoft. Can someone please confirm this. Any other suggestions?
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Ok, I'm seeing if Mono will work for me. Thanks for the suggestion. To answer the question/comment by horusofoz, I decided to dig in there forums a while. What I found is below:
> Can someone clarify the license for mono-basic? I've seen it as LGPLv2
> and GPL2 in different places!
The compiler is LGPLv2.1 and the class libraries are MIT X11.
For clarification on the MIT X11 license, I checked WikiPedia. That info is below:
The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), used by the MIT X Consortium.
It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software, and GPL-compatible, meaning that the GPL permits combination and redistribution with software that uses the MIT License.
According to the Free Software Foundation, the MIT License is more accurately called the X11 license, since MIT has used many licenses for software and the license was first drafted for the X Window System.[1]
Software packages that use the MIT License include Expat, PuTTY, the Mono development platform class libraries, Ruby on Rails, Lua 5.0 onwards and the X Window System, for which the license was written.
Some software packages dual license their products under the MIT License, such as older versions of the cURL library, which allowed recipients to choose either the Mozilla Public License or the MIT License.
and
Compatibility and multi-licensing
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Many of the most common free software licences, such as the original MIT/X license, the BSD license (in its current 3-clause form), and the LGPL, are "GPL-compatible". That is, their code can be combined with a program under the GPL without conflict (the new combination would have the GPL applied to the whole). However, some free/open source software licences are not GPL-compatible. Many GPL proponents have strongly advocated that free/open source software developers use only GPL-compatible licences, because doing otherwise makes it difficult to reuse software in larger wholes. Note that this issue only arises in concurrent use of licences which impose conditions on their manner of combination. Some licences, such as the BSD licence, impose no conditions on the manner of their combination.
As to whether it make this legal to be posted here, I would *think so, but I leave the legalese to smarter people than I. (BIG EVIL GRIN)
I hope this helps. Peace...
btw...I'll let ya all know if/when Mono works.
Bill G.
Frozen St. Paul, MN
land of the frozen mosquito
Grrr. It didn't work. The bleepin program still wants to install .Net Framework 2.0. Any other ideas???
Bill G.
Frozen St. Paul, MN
land of the frozen mosquito
First,
try simply install Mono its working with some modification to the registry
Second, I think its best
try to use this completely Open Source Dot NET CLR
http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/
I don't understand why any one not make it real portable apps and start to use whats good in Microsoft approach and not only whats bed.
The app is a portable app to make the ribbon in Office 2007 look like 2003.
Dear bill_gagliardi,
I myself found a tiny freeware to solve the problem and I use that since many months. This is in my opinion a very useful software. The manufacturer is the Swiss enterprise "ubit", which also provides versions in many languages for downloading.
For commercial use there is another version, which is - I think - rather inexpensive.
Have a look
Peter
Postscriptum:
UBitMenu for private users is freeware protected by a Creative Commons Licence (CCL).
UBitMenu Commercial Version:
http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/#c205