Microsoft's .NET Framework gets one less update reboot

Developers and other users of Microsoft's .NET Framework will soon be noticing changes to the company's Unified Update Platform (UUP). In particular, they'll see one less reboot needed when installing updates, can use the Dynamic Update capability to ensure their .NET framework has the latest feature update packages, and will …

[Tim 11]

.Net Framework is not .Net

It's worth pointing out for any of your readers that don't use this technology on a day-to-day basis that .Net Framework (to which this article refers) is the framework originally introduced around the turn of the century which is now at version 4.8. This has been in legacy/maintenance mode for a few years and is now considered to the part of the operating system for support purposes, much like VB6 runtime or Visual C++ runtime libraries.

For the past 5 years, Microsoft's efforts have been focused on the open-source cross-platform framework previously called .Net Core and now called just .Net (without the word "framework" or "core")

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: .Net Framework is not .Net

And the new shiny .Net is a space hog. Seriously, something that would have been 100M on Framework now comes in at 1GB of DLLs on Core. It's getting so that Core is getting unusable without automated tools like Octopus or MS Dev Ops... which is probably the point: lock the users in, make them dependent on your product.

[MatthewSt]

Re: .Net Framework is not .Net

If you're shipping 100mb of compiled code and you're _not_ using some form of automated tools, it's probably worth investigating them. You don't even need any form of vendor lock in, you can write your own scripts and run them in Linux containers. Octopus and DevOps are just fancy UIs and orchestration built on top of scripts.

If you _choose_ to ship a full copy of the framework alongside your deployment (rather than require it to be installed separately) then it will add at most 170mb (not sure where you've got 900mb from). There are utilities and processes out there that will trim that down for you.

[steamnut]

automatic updates?

With Microsoft's record I would hope that "automatic updates" is a feature than can be disabled else The Register's going to full of tails of woe. Get the strap-lines ready...

A few years back I had a lot of XP systems semi-bricked due to unstoppable updates requiring reboots. Never again I said and I have been Linux ever since.

When I load a seemingly small program that requires .NET runtime I never cease to be amazed at the size of the thing. And it seems to get bigger with each release.

[xyz]

Does this mean....

That I can actually do work when I switch my laptop on rather than the usual "have a few coffees" until whatever the hell is going on finishes beating my hard drive to death. The only virus I appear to have is something called Windows.

[deive]

"one less reboot" for a feramework... that defo has no hooks deep in their OS at all, that no-one else could get access to.

[Plest]

Obligatory smug refs to Golang, Rust, C++, etc

We might not have the glitz and glamour of the shiny .Net framework library but at least our releases don't need you to hire one of those huge AWS storage trucks just to get your software to the customers!

[Tubz]

Give Microsoft another 28 years and Windows might be updated without a reboot being needed, you can see them looking at Linux with envy.

[gerryg]

Linux user here.

Since 1997. Most definitely not a Microsoft fanboi,

However some updates do need a reboot to take effect, most obviously the kernel. However I can choose when to reboot (or indeed, to update), which I surmise is what you really meant.

[Steve Davies 3]

re: Give Microsoft another 28 years

Give them another 5 years and Linux WILL be the kernel of W12.

Seriously, the whole windows update system is a shit show and has been for over a decade.

No other OS in common use suffers from the stink of uncertainty.... Will my system brick itself... will my system go into endless reboots ... or will it eventually be MY system again

until the next time... and we go through it all again.

[Ken Moorhouse]

...once you install a one-time 10GB download...

Yeah right.