Re: Announcing GotNET
- From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 08:41:56 -0500
I ran gotnet on my xp laptop and it detected installations for .net 1.1,
2.0, 3.0 and 3.5.
Perhaps I should uninstall some of these...*smile*
--le
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From: "Jamal Mazrui" <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <ProgrammingBlind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>;
<GUISpeak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <uaccess-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 8:00 AM
Subject: Announcing GotNET
The .NET Framework is a strong choice for software application developers.
It has a comprehensive, consistent, and generally well-documented class
library that is free to use in any project. Depending on personal
preferences, one can code in C#, Visual Basic, JScript, F#, IronPython,
IronRuby, or other languages. Programs may be built with either
integrated development environments, or with text editors and command-line
compilers.
The .NET Framework integrates two major accessibility APIs: the older,
Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA), and the newer, User Interface
Automation (UIA). While Gaps remain, there is much accessibility support
for both developers and users of this platform. People with disabilities
can thereby be involved in both the development and use of .NET-based
applications.
The Microsoft accessibility development center is at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/bb735024.aspx
Some open source, .NET accessibility tools may be found there, as well as
with a Google search like
site:codeplex.com accessibility
One potential obstacle is that clients may not have the version of the
.NET Framework already installed that an application needs. I found a
good solution for this problem with Version 2.0 of the .NET Framework,
using the Microsoft Component Installer Software Development Kit,
available at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2A5E4EBC-651C-40AA-9525-1810AF47C317&displaylang=en
However, I could not find a free, sufficiently automated solution for
later versions of the Framework. GotNET is a free, open source program I
have developed in attempt to address this need. It can check whether the
most common versions of the .NET Framework are installed, and do so for
one or more of them via the Internet if not found: version 2.0, 3.5, or
4.0 (released last month).
An executable installer for GotNET is available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/netsetup.exe
Alternatively, a zip archive for manual installation is available at
http://EmpowermentZone.com/netsetup.zip
End users may run the GotNET installer to ensure they have .NET available
for any applications that may need it. More importantly, the GotNET.exe
utility in the distribution is available for .NET developers to bundle
with their applications, thereby ensuring that necessary prerequisites are
installed.
Jamal
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