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by viraptor 1014 days ago
> The sweet, sweet With keyword.

VB.net supports With though?

> Minimal runtime downloads to install apps locally, which also produced tiny, performant executables.

.net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days so you can deploy one exe without shipping your own runtime. Yes, officially you shouldn't, but there's so much stuff that depends on it now.
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wcoenen 1014 days ago
> net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

There is no "net framework 2.7":

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/framework/migration...

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viraptor 1014 days ago
Typo - I meant 4.7. Although it looks like they finally moved to 4.8 in w11.
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sn_master 1014 days ago
> .net framework 2.7 is guaranteed to be installed by default these days

Yes, but that wasn't the case back in the mid-2000s when VB6 was dying and no one wanted to migrate to VB.Net

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