The deployment story for the .NET Framework has improved. In both .NET Framework 1.1 and 2.0, the .NET Framework redistributable (dotnetfx.exe) installs an English (United States) version of the framework. This has not changed. However, the packaging of the user interface used during the installation process has. In the .NET Framework 1.1, you could distribute different language versions of the .NET Framework redistributable. So if you distributed the German .NET Framework redistributable, the setup user interface would be in German, and the English version of the framework would be installed. In the .NET Framework 2.0, however, there is just a single .NET Framework redistributable that contains the localized user interface for all supported languages. The user interface used during installation is determined by the language version of the operating system. In addition to the installation languages supported by the .NET Framework 1.1, the .NET Framework 2.0 supports Arabic and Hebrew. If you download the .NET Framework 2.0 redistributable from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads, be aware that the combo box that offers you a choice of languages simply refers to the language of the Web page from which the redistributable can be downloaded. The dotnetfx.exe on each and every page is 100 percent identical. |