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| 1 | <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> | ||
| 2 | <head> | ||
| 3 | <title>Dependencies</title> | ||
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| 10 | <div id="control"> | ||
| 11 | <span class="productTitle">Deployment Tools Foundation</span><br /> | ||
| 12 | <span class="topicTitle">Dependencies</span><br /> | ||
| 13 | <div id="toolbar"> | ||
| 14 | <span id="chickenFeet"> | ||
| 15 | <a href="about.htm">Overview</a> > | ||
| 16 | <span class="nolink">Dependencies</span> | ||
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| 20 | <div id="main"> | ||
| 21 | <div id="header"> | ||
| 22 | </div> | ||
| 23 | <div class="summary"> | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | <p>This page lists all the components that the DTF project depends on, at build time and at run-time.</p> | ||
| 26 | |||
| 27 | <h3>Build-time Dependencies</h3> | ||
| 28 | <ul> | ||
| 29 | <li><p><b>Visual Studio / .NET Framework</b> - Most of DTF can be built with Visual Studio 2005 & | ||
| 30 | .NET Framework 2.0. However, the LINQ project requires VS 2008 & .NET Framework 3.5.</p></li> | ||
| 31 | |||
| 32 | <li><p><b>Sandcastle</b> - .NET documentation build engine from Microsoft, used to process all the XML doc-comments | ||
| 33 | in DTF libraries into DTFAPI.chm. | ||
| 34 | <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/Sandcastle/" target="_blank">(official site)</a></p></li> | ||
| 35 | |||
| 36 | <li><p><b>Sandcastle Builder</b> - Sandcastle by itself is complex and difficult to use; this free tool | ||
| 37 | from Codeplex provides an easy-to-use project system around it to automate the documentation build process. | ||
| 38 | <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/SHFB/" target="_blank">(project link)</a></p></li> | ||
| 39 | |||
| 40 | <li><p><b>HTML Help Workshop</b> - Tools for building HTML Help 1.x (CHM files). Used to build DTF.chm. | ||
| 41 | <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms669985.aspx" target="_blank">(download link)</a></p></li> | ||
| 42 | </ul> | ||
| 43 | |||
| 44 | <h3>Run-time Dependencies</h3> | ||
| 45 | <ul> | ||
| 46 | <li><p><b>.NET Framework</b> - Most of DTF requires .NET Framework 2.0. (.NET 1.1 is no longer supported.) | ||
| 47 | The only exception is the LINQ assembly which requires .NET Framework 3.5.</p></li> | ||
| 48 | |||
| 49 | <li><p><b>Windows Installer</b> - Windows Installer introduced new APIs and capabilities with each successive | ||
| 50 | version. Obviously, the corresponding functionality in the managed APIs is only available when the required | ||
| 51 | version of the Windows Instaler (msi.dll) is installed on the system. Use the Installer.Version property | ||
| 52 | to easily check the currently installed MSI version. Attempting to use an API not supported by the current | ||
| 53 | version will result in an EntryPointNotFoundException. To check what version is required for a particular API, | ||
| 54 | see the documentation link to the corresponding unmanaged API in MSI.chm.</p> | ||
| 55 | <p>In some instances when a newer version of MSI provides an "Ex" alternative to a function, only the "Ex" | ||
| 56 | function is used by the managed library. This may hide some functionality that would have otherwise been | ||
| 57 | available on a system with an older version of MSI.</p></li> | ||
| 58 | |||
| 59 | <li><p><b>cabinet.dll</b> - The DTF cabinet compression library uses cabinet.dll to implement the | ||
| 60 | low-level cabinet compression and decompression. This DLL is part of all versions of Windows, | ||
| 61 | located in the system directory.</p></li> | ||
| 62 | |||
| 63 | <li><p><b>System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream</b> - The DTF zip compression library uses this class | ||
| 64 | to implement the low-level zip compression and decompression. This class is part of .NET Framework | ||
| 65 | 2.0 and later.</p></li> | ||
| 66 | </ul> | ||
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