Thanks for the feedback. We’ll be targeting the later versions of .NET in the next major version of Tickstory. For now, we need to be cognisant of the current users potentially using Tickstory on older operating systems.
Why not make “TickStory” not depend on .NET at all?
I don’t know what language you are developing in, but if you use C or C++, you could with not much difficulty switch to using a Windows API and not depend on .NET!
Not only would it be much faster and more compact, but would function on almost any version of Windows (including Wine) without worrying about the version of .NET installed on the PC.
I’m going to avoid part of your question – the big debate on which language to use will never cease 😉 Operating system support is definitely a consideration, however. Microsoft has recently announced their “push” to get .NET working on other O/S’s such as Mac and Linux (see http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-pushes-more-open-source-with-net-engine-coreclr/), so we’re hopeful of allowing those users to come onboard without any need for VMs or emulators!
Regards.
(P.S. As you probably noticed, a new thread has been created for this discussion to keep the original thread on-topic).
FYI – you don’t need to downgrade… you just need to add the older versions through windows features upgrade.. it’;s free and takes 5 seconds to do.. exuding the upgrade.
