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Getting the .NET Desktop Runtime Installed with a Custom Runtime Checker and Installer

June 21, 2023 - Hood River, Oregon

I've recently moved my Markdown Monster Desktop Application to .NET 7.0 and I had to make a decision on how to get the Runtime installed or packaged with my application. In this post I review the different deployment modes, the plus's and cons and the solution I ended up with which was to build a custom install wrapper that can check and install the runtime if not already present from an Installer or interactively.,