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Is there a specific version of .Net that I can target that is bundled with all versions of Windows of XP SP2 and higher?

We are trying to create a simple setup stub without having to resort to a low-level C/C++ app... currently something is cooked up in VB6, but there's a fair amount of low-level network code that I would much rather rewrite in .Net -- which would be trivial if only we could rely on the presence of a given version.

Tom Corelis
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  • possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2438937/what-version-of-the-net-framework-is-installed-on-windows-xp-vista-and-7 – Joe Apr 27 '10 at 01:05
  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2438937/what-version-of-the-net-framework-is-installed-on-windows-xp-vista-and-7 – Kyle Alons Apr 26 '10 at 23:00

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No, you cannot count on having .NET available on a XP machine. Windows Update might have been disabled. No problem on Vista (3.0) and Windows 7 (3.5 SP1).

Hans Passant
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