Semi-OT: A note about .NET

riredale wrote on 5/27/2004, 10:41 AM

I've always been suspicious about Microsoft. After all, a monopolist plays by a different set of rules. I've been reluctant to migrate from W98 to XP, and I've turned off the "auto-update" feature in the OS.

The latest thing that raised the reg flags was noting that Vegas5 only worked if you installed .NET first. Why? Wasn't the old way good enough? Is this truly necessary?

Fred Langa over at www.langalist.com (a weekly free computer newsletter) bemoans the fact that a very popular backup program called DriveImage went from fitting neatly on a single floppy (DriveImage5) to a bloated 85MB program (DriveImage7), all because it incorporated the use of .NET.

Fred suggested that .NET is inevitable, however, and you can read more about it at this site.

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roger_74 wrote on 5/27/2004, 11:16 AM

The network render in Vegas uses .NET. There's nothing "dangerous" about .NET at all, but it does add a system user account which might force a logon screen to appear even if you don't want it to. Search the forum for a fix.

craftech wrote on 5/27/2004, 3:08 PM

I installed the .Net software on my W98SE system when I installed Vegas 4 in order to take advantage of scripting. I finally just tried it at the beginning of this week. It didn't work because I had to do the following first:

Open the scriipt file with an editor such as notepad.

At the top of the script you will see the following line

import Sony.Vegas;

Change the above line to read as follows:

import SonicFoundry.Vegas;

Save the file (overwrite the provious copy) and then execute script.

Suggestion came from a poster on the scripting forum. When I posted the error message I was getting here, no one could figure it out. So for scripting, (if you want to use them), .Net is useful even on W98SE systems.

John