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Main installer and executable must check if .NET runtime is installed #148

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Uninstall .NET runtime if it is already installed.
2. Download and install WittyTwitter installer from featured downloads
3. Run WittyTwitter

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The expected response is a user-friendly error message box informing that
the system doesn't meet WittyTwitter's requirements. This should actually
be done before the installation itself, but a check is needed when
executing the app too. What is shown instead is an incomprehensible error
message in a dialog box(with not title) saying "Witty has encountered an
unexpected error. Please restart witty."

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Witty 0.8.5 Installer.exe
Microsoft Vista SP1
.NET Framework 3.5 NOT installed

Please provide any additional information below.
Witty via OneClick(witty.application) correctly warns that the .NET runtime
needed by the application is not installed. The main installer should also
do the same. In either case, running the application should also perform
the check and warn the user(in case the runtime gets uninstalled after
Witty was installed).

Original issue reported on code.google.com by tabrez.i...@gmail.com on 18 Jul 2008 at 6:34

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I'm so glad I found this bug report as it was the explanation for why Witter 
would 
not run for me on two different systems - XP sp3 and Vista sp1.

The main Witter page should say that .NET Framework 3.5 is required and include 
a 
link to the download page:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=333325FD-AE52-4E35-B531
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508D977D32A6&displaylang=en

Original comment by ash...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2008 at 1:40

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
It is not enough to note Witty's dependencies on website home page and 
documentation
pages. It is crucial that the application installer reports the absence of .NET
framework on user's machine. Nobody likes an application dying on them silently 
or
with incomprehensible error messages.

Original comment by tabrez.i...@gmail.com on 15 Aug 2008 at 1:55

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Installer was checking for .NET 3.0, but people had started using .NET 3.5 
features. 
I bumped the version checking to require 3.5, please check.

Original comment by jongallo...@gmail.com on 14 Sep 2008 at 11:25