Deployment Wizard .Net Framework 2.0 not installed error message

[timcheshire]

Can the dev team confirm if the Deployment Wizard requires .Net 2.0 (3.5)?

For a customer, I've created a clean install on a new server and upgraded to the latest EBF. I now need to create the ODBC driver package for distribution.

When trying to run the Deployment Wizard I am getting "The .Net Framework 2.0 is not installed"

This is on MS Server 2019. The server has the .Net Framework 4.7 role installed. My customer will not allow the .Net 3.5 role added as it is end-of-life.

I raise this a while (with a different customer) ago but managed to get around it as we had an old Win 2012 server we could use.

[VolkerBarth]

Is this a different issue than this one? I have no problem when just installing ODBC drivers on Windows Server 2022...

[timcheshire]

Similar, I only resolved that one by using an old Win server 2012 and building the package there.

[VolkerBarth]

Just to understand: Is there a particular reason you have to create the deployment on that particular Windows Server machine and, say, not on a Windows dev machine (and then use a tool to alter MSI files, in case you have to modify Product Codes, license keys or the like)?

[timcheshire]

Hi Volker, We have 2 lab/dev VM servers (2019 & 2022) on-site. I work in banking, this, and one other client, does not allow .NET 3.5 on any machine inc. lab :( It is excluded from their build images.

[jack_schueler]

I think I have a work-around for you while we investigate. Look at the master.xml file in the Deployment folder. Make a copy of master.xml first. Then try removing these lines (I left out the angle brackets because they mess up the text display - pretend that they are present).

feature id="start_dotnet.exe" hidden="true" subfeature="true
    !--files:1--
    exe path="[SQLANYDIR]\\Deployment\\start_dotnet" /
/feature

and further down

include id="start_dotnet.exe" /

Save the file and retry the DeploymentWizard. By the way, other than seeing the message, does this check really stop the install?

[timcheshire]

JBSchueler,

Good try however it does not work. I eventually deleted everything in the config XML.

This only seems to effect the Windows Deployment admin tool. SQL Central runs and databases work. I just cannot create a deployment package.

What I have discovered:

1) The Admin tools "Deploy to Windows" shortcut is "C:\\Program Files\\SQL Anywhere 17\\Deployment\\start_dotnet.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\SQL Anywhere 17\\Deployment\\DeploymentWizard.exe" which runs the start_dotnet exe.

2) If I run the DeploymentWizard.exe directly, a window pops up saying "Searching for required files" quickly followed by a pop-up saying "The following files couldn't be installed: .NET Framework 3.5 (includes .NET 2.0 and 3.0)

3) No amount of modifying the master.xml changed the load error.

[timcheshire]

Just to confirm .NET Framework 4.7 features and ASP.NET 4.7 are installed.