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sonik-br / GDMENUCardManager

Manage content on SD Card for Dreamcast's GDMenu
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Link to essential NET 5.0 Runtime installer incorrect (Windows) #36

Open Widge-5 opened 1 year ago

Widge-5 commented 1 year ago

The link on the README.MD file to the .NET 5.0 installer takes you to a page that downloads the last release of the 5.0 runtime, which is 5.0.17. The application won't run unless .NET 5.0.0 is installed and unfortunately 5.0.17 doesn't cut the mustard. I could not run it with this .NET runtime version installed The correct version of the runtime can be found on the full 5.0.x releases page at https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/5.0 and navigating down and expanding the 5.0.0 section. Within, it is named as 5.0.100 and it downloads an installer that is named 5.0.100, but after installing it the excellent GDMenu Card Manager application will then run.

At the very least the documented guidance should be updated to direct new users to the correct runtime installer. However I would like to recommend that the application be updated to use a more recent release of .NET that is stable and supported as .NET 5 is obsolete.

Widge-5 commented 1 year ago

Also, an afterthought. Before I installed the correct .NET runtime, When I tried launch the application a message box informed me that .NET 5.0.0 was required, and asked if I wanted to install it. Answering Yes (or OK, I forget what the options were) didn't seem to do anything. I expected the question being asked should mean that the application would download and install it for me, but that didn't seem to be the case.

sonik-br commented 1 year ago

Hi. Thanks for the info.

The app will be updated to a new version of the framework.

About the second comment, I don't have control of what happens when the framework is not installed.

TimeWarpGamer commented 1 year ago

Fantastic Fix. Exactly what I needed. Thank you!