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<blockquote data-quote="HSishi" data-source="post: 1304362" data-attributes="member: 167861">Since 3.5 can't be installed within the mentioned Win11 and later versions, for now it's probably the best to provide the download link to the 3.5 installer while it's still working.But that link won't work forever. It might be 3.5 or even 4.0 can't be installed in a future Windows version.As for converting ... my (very basic) understandings are:<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">The .net framework is a library of features you don't have to code by yourself in your apps because they're already ready-to-use and only need to be called with proper parameters.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">Newer versions of that library either still contain the features which have newer code for newer hardware / OS but have the same name, or the same features with newer names and calls which still do the same, so &quot;only&quot; editing the code at some places is required.</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">But I also understand a large software like MediaPortal requires lots of checks if editings have to be made or not.</li>
</ul>editThe interesting bit is: One of the last updates of Windows removed 3.5. MediaPortal itself didn't notice or care and continued to run.The problem occured when I tried to update from 1.36 to 1.38.So maybe the solution is to simply check if 3.5 or even 4.0 is really required or already obsolete with newer versions and MP just needs any .net (framework) installed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HSishi, post: 1304362, member: 167861"] Since 3.5 can't be installed within the mentioned Win11 and later versions, for now it's probably the best to provide the download link to the 3.5 installer while it's still working. But that link won't work forever. It might be 3.5 or even 4.0 can't be installed in a future Windows version. As for converting ... my (very basic) understandings are: [LIST] [*]The .net framework is a library of features you don't have to code by yourself in your apps because they're already ready-to-use and only need to be called with proper parameters. [*]Newer versions of that library either still contain the features which have newer code for newer hardware / OS but have the same name, or the same features with newer names and calls which still do the same, so "only" editing the code at some places is required. [*]But I also understand a large software like MediaPortal requires lots of checks if editings have to be made or not. [/LIST] [I]edit[/I] The interesting bit is: One of the last updates of Windows removed 3.5. MediaPortal itself didn't notice or care and continued to run. The problem occured when I tried to update from 1.36 to 1.38. So maybe the solution is to simply check if 3.5 or even 4.0 is [I]really[/I] required or already obsolete with newer versions and MP just needs any .net (framework) installed. [/QUOTE]

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