tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post460245756020963186..comments2023-08-20T04:16:39.520-05:00Comments on Deployment Engineering Archive: Don't Believe Everything You ReadChristopher Painterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-34870802284460302322008-08-25T08:43:00.000-05:002008-08-25T08:43:00.000-05:00Hi Dan, Another interesting variation on this them...Hi Dan,<BR/><BR/> Another interesting variation on this theme is where people imply that you can't possibly be a real setup developer if your using a GUI tool like InstallShield.<BR/><BR/>Anyways for your `statically link` question... not officially. There are some products out there ( Such as Xenocode Postbuild ) that allow you to use application virtualization to fake out the entire stack of Christopher Painterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12167478740431444267noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9537945.post-13430218471108257142008-08-25T07:10:00.000-05:002008-08-25T07:10:00.000-05:00Christopher, I had to laugh reading this, I cringe...Christopher, I had to laugh reading this, I cringe every time someone says exclusively "real programmers must [SOAP-BOX-PROPERTY]"! <BR/><BR/>My only real beef with .Net is the same problem you have with it and that is the overhead of installing the .Net environment which is getting more and more expensive every year. For instance, lets say you have a 500MB app that is distributed on CD media. Danhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07138642769361999429noreply@blogger.com